[sllug-members]: OpenSSH Idle Timeout

[Jason Edwards]

Well this won't be it, from the man:

"Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages
to the other side.  If they are sent, death of the connection or
crash of one of the machines will be properly noticed.  However,
this means that connections will die if the route is down tem-
porarily, and some people find it annoying.  On the other hand,
if TCP keepalives are not sent, sessions may hang indefinitely on
the server, leaving ``ghost'' users and consuming server re-
sources.

The default is ``yes'' (to send TCP keepalive messages), and the
server will notice if the network goes down or the client host
crashes.  This avoids infinitely hanging sessions.

To disable TCP keepalive messages, the value should be set to 'no'."

So this is on already on...  Plus, it's a 'yes' or 'no' kinda thing;
doesn't let me specify a time to kill the session...

I know, why is this so hard?

Jason

On Jan 25, 2008 9:50 AM, Colby W. <colbyw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> See also (in sshd_config(5)) : TCPKeepAlive
>
>  --- Colby
>
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