idletime in login.conf

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com> 
> Date:		Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:32 -0700 
> Message-id:	<20111031182532.GF82316 at eggman.experts-exchange.com> 

Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:09:34AM -0500, Dan Nelson thus spake:
> >In the last episode (Oct 31), Damien Fleuriot said:
> >> On 30 Oct 2011, at 16:45, Modulok <modulok at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > List,
> >> >
> >> > Goal: Automatically logoff users that are idle after 'x' minutes.
> >> >
> >> > Attempt: I added this to /etc/login.conf to the default login class:
> >> >
> >> >    :idletime=10m:
> >> >
> >> > I then rebuilt the database:
> >> >
> >> >    cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
> >> >
> >> > Problem: It doesn't work. The 'w' command shows users idle for 20
> >> > minutes or more.  I'm missing something.  Other than an autologout shell
> >> > variables, how do I force idle users to logout?
> >>
> >> Are these users that logged in after or before your change ?
> >>
> >> Obviously the idle timeout only applies to users who logged in after you
> >> adjusted the value and rebuilt the db.
> >
> >Actually, the idle timeout is not implemented in the base system.  It's
> >there in case someone writes a 3rd-party module that does idle detection.
> >See the login.conf manpage:
> >
> >RESERVED CAPABILITIES
> >     The following capabilities are reserved for the purposes indicated and
> >     may be supported by third-party software.  They are not implemented in
> >     the base system.
> >[...]
> >     idletime          time                Maximum idle time before logout.
> >
> >
> You may want to look into /usr/ports/sysutils/doinkd for this. I use it on
> many systems, and it works remarkable well, and it is highly configurable.
> 
> -jgh
> 
> -- 
> Jason Helfman
> System Administrator

That was a useful tip, but people (inc. self) will not remember.
Suggestion: use send-pr to submit a diff to add 
	SEE ALSO ports/sysutils/doinkd 
to man login.conf

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
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