timeout setting for login

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 6 12:41:22 UTC 2017


On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Patrick Pief <p.pief at zoho.com> wrote:
> As noted in http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/340333/117599 BBox's login has no
> way for setting LOGIN_TIMEOUT, it's always there and hardcoded to 60 seconds.
>
> What would you think if there was support for it but not through a setting in
> /etc/login.conf or similar but instead through a parameter like `-t` followed by
> the number of seconds or 0 for turning it off?

Such addition would be not compatible with other inits.


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