On Mon 08 Apr 2019 at 13:39:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:25:28PM -0500, timothylegg wrote: > > I need to have the session expire and the ssh client terminate after > > an idle time. > > Most people want the exact opposite of that. > > Basically, what you're asking for is directly hostile to any kind of > sane operation of a computer.
The first thought that crossed my mind when I read the OP was a teletype clattering out the message "FIVE MINUTE WARNING". Expiration was, of course, standard practice when interactive sessions were a scarce resource that required reclaiming after, say, ten minutes of inactivity. How times change. Of course we all hated it. One of the advantages of the old KSR33s was this audible wake-up call when debugging was taking a little longer than you expected. After they were replaced by "glass" teletypes, you'd turn your attention back to the screen only to find ten minutes had passed and you were logged off. With something like four times as many terminals as sessions, it could take a while to get back on at busy times of the day. Cheers, David.
