[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:43 , Bill Blum wrote:
> 
>> If you notice in the manual page for login.conf, the option you're 
>> looking
>> for (idletime) isn't implemented.
> 
> Actually, that not what I'm looking for.
> 
> idletime is how long before an idle login gets kicked off.
> 
> I'm talking about the amount of time the login prompt is displayed 
> before the login program gives up.
> 

You can do this in SSH (I have done exactly this on an Internet-facing 
machine), not sure about the login code.

--Patrick