Killing idle SSH sessions?

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Jul 5 20:46:12 UTC 2005


Alex Evonosky wrote:
> Brandon Laing wrote:
> 
>> John,
>>
>> Could you go into a bit more detail about this? 
> 
> 
> 
> Add this to your /etc/sshd/sshd_config:
> 
> ClientAliveInterval n
> 
> n=number of seconds (0 default for unlimited)

I suspect, but haven't checked, that applies to all connexions and could 
terminate programs other than the shell through inactivity. Also, it 
measures inicativity differently from then shell - the former measures 
traffic, the latter commands.


Cheers
John

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