[TriLUG] SSH inactivity timeout

[Douglas Ward]

I modified the settings on our firewall to accomodate this.

On 1/27/06, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Y'all,
>    I've noticed that if I'm ssh'ed into a system somewhere across the
> Internet and my session goes idle for a certain length of time, I'm
> disconnected ("connection reset by peer").  However, if the session is
> with a host on the LAN, then that doesn't happen - my session can stay
> idle all day long and not get terminated.
>
> I want to change that.  I'm setting up a server to be as secure as I can
> make it, and I don't want the possibility of someone (read: me in a fit
> of laziness) walking away from an SSH session for a while and leaving it
> open to physical compromise.
>
> However, I don't see anything in the sshd_config about inactivity.  For
> what should I be looking?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
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