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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:30:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
To:        Derek Leung <goten@sduteam.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setting the idle time
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.971001182954.23832B-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3432C5C1.6CFB6E26@sduteam.com>

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There is a package/port called idled.  It will let you kick users off
based on their idle time.aI believe it will also let you kick off users
that have been logged on for a certain amount of time.

-Joe

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Derek Leung wrote:

> Does anyone know how to set the length of idle time for a user in the
> shell.  Since I do not want to let my users just to idle in the shell
> and doing nothing.  I check the login.conf, but I got no luck.  Does
> anybody can give me a step by step instructions? Or a template how to do
> that?
> 
> Another question is that I also want to set the lenght of time for a
> user to telnet to our shell.  From the stock of FreeBSD2.2.2, when
> someone telnet to a FreeBSD server, user can keep trying login in even
> the password is wrong.  The server will not disconnect the user no
> matter how many trial he did.  Does anyone know how can I restrict this
> so that user will be disconnect if he try to login more than 3 times
> while the password is incorrect?
> Thanks for any comments, pls email me for reply.  Thanks again.
> 
> rgd,
> Derek
> mailto:goten@sduteam.com
> 
> 




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