From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 18:54:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600E316A41F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:54:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F242A43D45 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:54:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45777CCFF34 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:54:16 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: wl6skV4f7Qh6wDC4ZZo8qNi/d6eldghLqKLYaCYpu8Gp 1126551254 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F091E5 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:54:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merkur (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 willmaier@ml1.net; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:54:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:54:17 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050912185417.GB30659@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4325C7D3.7060409@calarts.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4325C7D3.7060409@calarts.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: 5.4 SSH Timeout help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:54:21 -0000 On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:24:19AM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > I SSH into the server with no problem and I'm able to do work > however when I walk away from my desk SSH closes the session. It > seems the timeout is 5 or 10 min how can I change this setting for > all of our users? What shell are the users using? If they're using 'tcsh' or certain other shells, they might be running up against the shell's autologout option. See the man page for tcsh (1): | The first word is the number of minutes of inactivity before | automatic logout. The optional second word is the number of minutes | of inactivity before automatic locking. When the shell | automatically logs out, it prints `auto-logout', sets the variable | logout to `automatic' and exits. When the shell automatically | locks, the user is required to enter his password to continue | working. Five incorrect attempts result in automatic logout. Set to | `60' (automatic logout after 60 minutes, and no locking) by default | in login and superuser shells, but not if the shell thinks it is | running under a window system (i.e., the DISPLAY environment | variable is set), the tty is a pseudo-tty (pty) or the shell was | not so compiled (see the version shell variable). See also the | afsuser and logout shell variables. -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | jabber:..wcmaier@jabber.ccc.de | email:..........wcmaier@ml1.net | | \.........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | \..........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*