idletime in login.conf

[Jason Helfman]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey thus spake:
>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
>
I don't believe doinkd respects the values of login.conf, however you may
use those values for what is configurable for doinkd. I don't believe it is
the correct place in a base man page for mentioning a port in the FreeBSD
tree, or in at least this case.

If you feel it is, feel free to send in a problem report. I, myself, will
not be filing a report for this item.

-jgh

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