[Gllug] Using autolog with ssh...

[Dylan]

Hi all,

I've been trying to set up autolog (which automatically logs out idle users.) 
It works fine for local console logins, but not so well for ssh logins 
(haven't tried telnet or rsh cos they're not present on the remote host.)

The user gets logged out, just as a local login does, but the client end of 
the connection simply stops responding. The client box is fully functional, 
so I can, e.g. close the terminal window or switch console and kill the ssh 
process. If I manually kill the ssh process on the remote host, then the 
client simply reports "Connection to host foo teminated" - exactly as 
expected.

So, any ideas what might be causing the client end console to stop responding?

From the description of what autolog does (parse /var/run/utmp and compare it 
to autolog's config file) I figure writing a script to run from cron 
shouldn't be too much hassle - but how would I make it perform the logout?

Cheers
Dylan

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