how to change telnet login timeout of 60 secs

gimp123 · 03-19-2006, 10:47 PM

Using RH ES 3 does anyone know how to change the default telnet login timeout of 60 seconds? Our users can't type well enough to be able to enter their username/password and then select and change their password when it expires, within the 60 second timeout limit.

/etc/login.defs entry
LOGIN_TIMEOUT doesn't seem to do the trick even though I thought it should.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

chrism01 · 03-19-2006, 11:43 PM

You may have a good reason for telnet, but I'd strongly advise you to look into ssh.
Telnet is not encrypted at all ie not the normal traffic, NOR the login/passwd phase...

gimp123 · 03-20-2006, 05:24 PM

Thanks for the advice. I am aware of the issues with telnet. Anyone got any solutions for my question?

rosect · 10-24-2011, 01:52 PM

Hi, gimp123,

Did you figure out how? Could you let me know? Thanks.

rosect