[lug] Generic idle timeout mechanism?

[Chip Atkinson]

Look at idled for your timeout program.  Go to 
http://www.darkwing.com/idled/
We have it here at work.  It works well even though I hate it since I'm 
always on the recieving end. :-)

Chip

Bryan Field-Elliot wrote:

> I have users coming into my box via SSH, where they are immediately 
> directed to run a specific bash script (which in turn starts up a 
> console program I wrote). They never get a bash prompt.
> 
> I need to automatically timeout some users if they don't do anything for 
> 5 minutes. Other users, however (like me), I need to allow them to sit 
> idle as long as they like.
> 
> Is there a generic program for Linux that I can run as a background task 
> in each user's shell space, which does a timeout check and automatic 
> logout if the timeout is exceeded? Ideally it should let me set the 
> timeout as a command-line parameter, so that I can vary it per user as 
> needed.
> 
> Help would be appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan
> 
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