Idletimeout patch

[Jani Jaakkola]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

>
> 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.

I checked on idled and it seems to be a tool for throwing out users from
ttys. I don't need a tool like that: I need a tool that kills idle
_ssh_-sessions, regardless of protocol version or whether the sessions
have a tty or not. In our environment we have thousands of users and
hundreds of ssh-session (both protocol versions) in a day and hanged or
just forgotten ssh-sessions (also sessions without a tty) are a real
problem.

> 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 guess that ssh already has lots of features that are useles for most
people.

Is there any technical reason to not accept the patch? I there is
something wrong with patch I would like to know it, since I will be
installing it to couple hundred machines.

- Jani