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From: k125374@korppi.cs.tut.fi (Kortelainen Mika)
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Subject: Re: Idle time...
Date: 25 May 1995 09:35:38 GMT
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louis@scls1 (Louis A. DeRobertis) writes:

>    Can anyone think of a quick/easy way to logout a user that has been idle for X amount of minutes?

I don't know how but at least my NetBSD (Amiga version) does logout me if
I'm idle too many minutes (or about an hour I guess). I was logged as
root then, but probably it does the same for other users, too.

I don't know is this the default behaviour in any *BSD or just in NetBSD...

	Mika Kortelainen