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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Idle time detector / autologout for UNIX system.
Date: 24 Dec 1994 01:44:33 -0800
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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Message-ID: <3dgqi1$709@linda.teleport.com>
Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com

I'm looking for way to detect user idle time and log them out after
they've been idle for 15 minutes. 

I need this to work with all of the standard shells (sh, csh, ksh, tcsh,
bash).

Is there a freeware solution for this problem?

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