OpenSSH and Idle Timeouts

[Pekka Savola]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Eli K. Breen wrote:
> I've looked back through the OpenSSH mailing lists and am stumped as to
> why there is no IdleTimeout option for OpenSSH. (Normally the omission
> of a feature as useful as this generates much debate and flame-quashing
> from the dev. team).
>
> Is there some background to this that I'm missing?
>
> Here's the scenario, and I'm fully open to any workarounds.

Maybe you should look at this functionality in th shells you're 
using..

tcsh: set autologout=x
bash: export TMOUT=[x*60]

There are ways how these don't get triggered, but maybe sshd shouldn't 
forcibly terminate the session under those circumstances, no matter 
the delay.

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