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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!sundance!cmetz From: cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Does BSD support autologout? Date: 8 Aug 1994 12:20:56 GMT Organization: Information Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3257v8$rrt@ra.nrl.navy.mil> References: <31r0f4$6iu@matrix.eden.com> <michaelv.776151059@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil In <31r0f4$6iu@matrix.eden.com> jprice@eden.com (J.P. Price) writes: >Does BSD support a feature that will autologout a user after a specified >time limit, via a daemon or somesuch? If you mean to limit idle time, there are a few programs available on the archives of comp.sources.unix that will do the trick. I personally recommend one named 'idel'. If you mean to limit login time, there have been some scripts posted to the net (I remember seeing one in comp.os.linux.misc) for systems that do this. For a quick solution, try using a program named 'safe' to limit the amount of time the user's shell can run (also from comp.sources.unix).