Idletimeout patch

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

This is pretty much equiv to idled or the hundreds of other idle testing
deamons out there.   Except it's more limited.   Idled is much nicer for
doing such things.  It gives you more control the whole process so you can
disable it for certian groups of people.  Your patch does not so to most
people it would be useless.

I really don't want to this patch go in.

- Ben



On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Jani Jaakkola wrote:

>
> While I was updating our ssh-servers, I rewrote my old patch that adds
> idletimeout (just like in old ssh1) parameter to openssh. Since reapplying
> the patch for all new versions of openssh is not fun at all, I would like
> to have it included in the official openssh, if you consider the patch
> worthy.
>
> Unlike ClientAlive, idletimeout works for both protocol versions. It also
> works together with ClientAlive (however, the code which prevents
> clientalive-messages from resetting idletimeout is not foolproof.
> Foolproof patch would require to add different idletimeout support to
> different packets, which would be too complex).
>
> It adds two time() syscalls to select loop, but only if idletimeout is
> used in the configuration file.
>
> Attached patch (also available from
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/idletimeout.patch
> ) is against openssh-2.9p2. If you will include it in the
> official openssh, I would be very happy to also document it.
>
> - Jani
>
>