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One of our regular reader hall sends an interesting question:
I work for a small company and most user login to centralized Linux server. I’d like to
automatically log out all inactive users from server for various reasons. How do I disconnect inactive user sessions?
To be frank, I don’t have any clear cut answer to question. There are at least 4-5 shells installed on a typical Linux installation. Also most user have has control over their own environment and user can switch to a different shell.
I hope our reader or seasoned UNIX admin can help to answer this question. Please share the experiences and advice in the comments.
Update: Checkout answer below in comments!
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Tags: inactive_users, Linux, linux_installation, linux_server, questions, sessions, shells, UNIX, unix_admin ~ Last updated on: July 11, 2007
you can do this in sshd_config file:
Set idle session timeout to 15 min:
ClientAliveInterval 300
ClientAliveCountMax 3
Another way: for bash and Korn-shell, setting
TMOUT=7200in /etc/profile will logout users after 2 hours of inactivity.
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