idletime in login.conf

[Jason Helfman]

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

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