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Re: TIP: Secure root with autologout
by Santhosh Joseph on Tuesday February 26, @02:26AM

With bash shell, autologout can be enabled by setting the environment variable "TMOUT" :

export TMOUT=x where x is in SECONDS

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    Re: TIP: Secure root with autologout
    by Derrek on Monday August 06, @01:07PM

    sh, ash, bash, bsh, ksh all use TMOUT in /etc/profile (export TMOUT=) csh and tcsh use /etc/csh.cshrc or /etc/csh.login (set autologout=)

    Just tested this on Linux.

    -Derrek
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    • Re: TIP: Secure root with autologout
      by Derrek on Monday August 06, @01:08PM

      Also,

      TNOUT value is in seconds. autologout value is in minutes.

      -Derrek
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      • Re: TIP: Secure root with autologout
        by aixadmin on Wednesday December 02, @06:21AM

        to display the TMOUT value from ksh we can use export $TMOUT.. any idea how can we display env variables in csh ?
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