On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 6:04 AM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 10:05:43AM +0200, Conti Stefano wrote: > > Hello! In My Debian 11 SSH timeout logoff not work! I must put in > > .bashrc of my user: TMOUT=600 to loogut after 10 minutes. Work, of > > course, but close all bash terminal! > > > > This is my sshd_config with info for timeout: > > > > TCPKeepAlive no > > ClientAliveInterval 600 > > ClientAliveCountMax 0 > > Those settings *are not* supposed to close an idle ssh session. Nothing > in ssh is supposed to close an idle session. There isn't any facility > to do that, because it's entirely contrary to the design of ssh. > > Your TMOUT solution is the standard way to appease the managerial morons > who are asking this of you. Well, it's one of the standard ways. The other is to let the network admins do it instead. > It asks the shell to terminate if it's > sitting idle for however many seconds you specify. If the shell closes, > then the ssh session is free to close as well, assuming there are no > active tunneling connections, etc. > >
