From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 1 15:31:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13505 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ocala.cs.miami.edu (ocala.cs.miami.edu [129.171.34.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA13482 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ocala.cs.miami.edu by ocala.cs.miami.edu via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI) id SAA23855; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:30:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:30:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" To: Derek Leung cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting the idle time In-Reply-To: <3432C5C1.6CFB6E26@sduteam.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > >