Hi,

I recently installed RH 7.2 and I want to disable/extend the automatic logout functionality that comes with it. I have tried looking for autologout / TMOUT envronment variables., but they are not present.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Alan

You mean $(env | grep TMOUT)? *Where* have you looked for them? /etc/(profile|bashrc), /etc/security/*?

Hi, I took a look for them in /etc/profile (I don't want this to apply to all users) & and I searched for them in my home directory as well. No sign of either. I tried seeting TMOUT=-1 but I am still being logged out.

Thanks, Alan

Btw, do you mean local console logout or remote session logout? If local, have you tried adding TMOUT="" (and export the var) to your ~/.bash_profile?

// Note: Im gonna graft this onto /General because it ain't security related IMO, and I gotta clean up more...

Hi All,

I'm still stuck with this. Red Hat told me that they didn't cover this in the support agreement. I have taken a look at my /var/log/messages and this is what I have after a tail -x messages

**Ignore the clock times, I was playing with it.

Sep 5 20:07:45 erg-083 MFómh 5 20:07:45 gdm(pam_unix)[16539]: session opened for user alan by (uid=0)
Sep 5 20:07:49 erg-083 xinetd[16737]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Sep 5 20:08:28 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16803]: session opened for user root by alan(uid=500)
Sep 5 20:11:52 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16863]: session opened for user root by alan(uid=0)
Sep 5 20:12:07 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16863]: session closed for user root
Sep 5 20:13:17 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16803]: session closed for user root
Sep 5 20:18:28 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16938]: session opened for user root by alan(uid=500)
Sep 5 20:18:30 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16938]: session closed for user root
Sep 5 20:18:30 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16945]: session opened for user root by alan(uid=500)
Sep 5 19:18:38 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16945]: session closed for user root
Sep 5 19:20:01 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16986]: authentication failure; logname=alan uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= user=root
Sep 5 19:20:06 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16987]: session opened for user root by alan(uid=500)
Sep 5 19:40:20 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[16987]: session closed for user root
Sep 5 19:40:38 erg-083 MFómh 5 19:40:38 gdm(pam_unix)[16539]: session closed for user alan
Sep 5 19:40:54 erg-083 MFómh 5 19:40:54 gdm(pam_unix)[16539]: session opened for user alan by (uid=0)
Sep 5 19:40:57 erg-083 xinetd[17207]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Sep 5 20:06:46 erg-083 MFómh 5 20:06:46 gdm(pam_unix)[16539]: session closed for user alan
Sep 5 20:06:47 erg-083 MFómh 5 20:06:47 gdm[16539]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
Sep 5 21:27:17 erg-083 MFómh 5 21:27:17 gdm(pam_unix)[17342]: session opened for user alan by (uid=0)
Sep 5 21:27:19 erg-083 xinetd[17490]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected
Sep 5 21:34:23 erg-083 su(pam_unix)[17579]: session opened for user root by alan(uid=500)


I'm well stuck here and this is driving me crazy, any help appreciated.

Thanks again, Alan