[sllug-members]: OpenSSH Idle Timeout

[Jason Edwards]

As far as I can tell, that's for detecting dead clients:

"Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has
been received from the client, sshd(8) will send a message
through the encrypted channel to request a response from the
client.  The default is 0, indicating that these messages will
not be sent to the client.  This option applies to protocol version 2 only."

In other words, if no data comes down the line, the server will check
to see if the client is there.  It's essentially try to determine if
the connection has been broken and/or the session has hung.

And I did try this, but my session never times out.

Thanks,

Jason

On Jan 25, 2008 9:42 AM, Stuart Jansen <sjansen at buscaluz.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:24 -0700, Jason Edwards wrote:
> > How do you set the idle timeout for OpenSSH?
>
> man sshd_config reveals: ClientAliveInterval. Give that a try.
>
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