SSH inactivity timeout

SSH inactivity timeout

Posted by: msteudel
Posted on: 2007-12-02 03:11:00

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to increase the inactivity timeout auto disconect when ssh'ing into DH servers.

Thanks, Mark

Re: SSH inactivity timeout

Posted by: sdayman
Posted on: 2007-12-02 07:21:00

I haven't encountered this. How long does it take to log you out? This interval is set in the server's sshd.conf file, which you can not modify. It's generally a good idea for a server to auto-log out inactive sessions.

-Scott

Re: SSH inactivity timeout

Posted by: Lensman
Posted on: 2007-12-02 10:33:00

Yeah, my timeout seems pretty long. I'd actually like to see it shorter. :)

Re: SSH inactivity timeout

Posted by: wholly
Posted on: 2007-12-02 11:13:00

Check your client isn't doing keep-alives.

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Re: SSH inactivity timeout

Posted by: msteudel
Posted on: 2007-12-02 12:03:00

I just timed mine and it's around 9 minutes. Which I suppose sounds long. I found a keep alive setting on my ssh client so I'm going to set it to 8 minutes and see if that does the trick.

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