[quoted lines by Dave Mielke on August 9, 2000, at 21:11]

>Set the environment variable "TMOUT" to the number of seconds that you'd like
>to impose as an auto-logout timeout.

An additional point: If you want to impose the timeout on others, then you
should make the variable read-only so that they can't change or unset it. You
can do this via a command like:

    typeset -r TMOUT=900

which will impose a 15 minute timeout.

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