Re: automatic idle timeout in openssh

From: Richard Silverman (res@des.jhy.us.ml.com)
Date: 01/30/02


From: Richard Silverman <res@des.jhy.us.ml.com>
Date: 30 Jan 2002 15:47:37 -0500


>>>>> "SS" == Scott Savarese <savarese@cs.bu.edu> writes:

    SS> I just installed openssh on my system and have noticed that if I
    SS> leave a window idle for a period of time I automatically get
    SS> booted from the server. Is there a configuration option I can set,
    SS> or an ./configure parameter I can use to disable this feature?

OpenSSH does not have an idle timeout feature. Perhaps it's your shell's
autologout, or perhaps there's a NAT timeout somewhere?

-- 
 Richard Silverman
 slade@shore.net