Is there any method in suse linux (sles 9) for making idle time out for root in physical console ?

That means when a root user(or any other user) logs in to the session he need to loged out if the session is idle for 5 minutes.

Please help

What do you mean for physical console? In bash you can set the TIMEOUT for a session by the environment variable TMOUT, for example if you open a terminal and issue
the session will end and the terminal will close after 5 minutes of inactivity. You can set the variable in .bashrc for root and the trick is done.

In KDE you can also setup a timeout for the X session. Since KDE 3.4 this is a feature of the screensaver. You have to edit the file $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc and under the screen-saver section add
I don't know for GNOME sessions or for other desktop managers, but maybe there is a similar feature.

Hi guys, the 'export TMOUT=300' is a temporary solution, this is gone once you close the terminal session or reboot your system... how do we apply this permanently? Thanks.

As stated in my previous post, "you can set the variable in .bashrc". Take in mind this is a timeout feature of the shell: only a terminal or a console will be affected, not the X environment.

Place something like the following in the profile:When "root" logs in, this would set the timeout but leave no timeout for everyone else.

I suspect this won't work if you're logged in as Joe Normal and running something like YaST in X that needs root privileges to execute. Worth a try though; leaving YaST running forever shouldn't really be necessary.

Cheers...
Rick

Tnx rnturn. I tried analyzing /etc/profile and did this instead:

- set TMOUT=300
- added TMOUT value on (export PATH USER MAIL TMOUT)

Now this works for who ever logs in.

Thanks again!