sshd - time out idle connections

[markham breitbach]

Depending on the shell you are using, you may be able to set that to auto-logout, or you
could set a cron job to run every 5 minutes and terminate tty's with > 5min idle time.

Honestly though, you will rarely find a good technical solution to a social
problem--there's always a work-around--and this is a social problem.  If there is a
company security policy stating that ssh sessions are not to be left idling > 5 min, then
make sure everyone is aware of this policy and start handing out pink slips to people that
violate it.

-M


On 13-05-03 8:28 AM, Fleuriot Damien wrote:
> Hello list,
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> I'm facing this unusual demand at work where we need to time out idle SSH connections for security purposes.
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> I've checked the following options from sshd_config but none seems to fit my needs :
> TCPKeepAlive
> ClientAliveCountMax
> ClientAliveInterval
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> Basically, I'm trying to defeat the use of the following client-side option:
> ServerAliveInterval 5
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> I'm afraid all I've hit now is dead ends.
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> Has anyone ever had the same requirements before and, perhaps, found a solution to this ?
>
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