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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