idle (or inactivity) timeout in ash

rouble r.ouble at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 22:55:53 UTC 2011


Hi Jim et al,

Thanks for the comments. One question inline.

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> Idle timeouts are always implemented outside the shell.
> Otherwise, consider how one can circumvent them by typing
> something highly secret, like "ed".  (Pick your favorite
> interactive tool here.)
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> The idle timeout program (and I forget the name of the common
> one) just watches the TTY accessed times, and if they stop moving
> they kill the session.

Using busybox utilities, is their a way to list idle TTY sessions?

tia,
rouble

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