[comp.unix.questions] Want login shell to timeout after 1

root@uokmet.UUCP (01/12/88)

>All these cute little scripts/programs to kill off idle users are cute
>but they are also futile.  It doesn't take much imagination to come up
>with a program to put a clock on the screen or just write any meaningless
>little message out to the screen every few minutes in order to beat it.

They are NOT futile.  People had a tendency to forget to log off our
Tektronix 4105 terminals.  Why, you ask?  Well, after a certain amount of
inactivity, the screens go blank.  That makes it easy for a user to
forget he/she was logged in.

	== kwthomas ==