Idletimeout patch

[Per Allansson]

I agree with Jani - this is not a useless feature - and it
can not be solved by using other programs like idled.

There is at least one thing missing in the patch - handling 
of key re-exchange - a key re-exchange should not reset
the idle timeout timer.

Jani Jaakkola wrote:
> 
> 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