Program to log off idle users
Dan Bernstein
brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Fri Oct 19 09:04:51 AEST 1990
In article <1990Oct18.135619.2393 at cs.utk.edu> Dave Sill <de5 at ornl.gov> writes:
> I don't think it's as simple as that, Dan. If I'm sitting on my
> workstation with active xterms to various systems, what's dangerous
> about one or more of those connections being idle?
Hm? Nothing at all. It's the client's responsibility to handle timeouts.
The client knows if it's sitting under an already idle-protected
session and can behave appropriately.
I imagine a TELNET option like ``WILL IDLE'' telling the server that the
client can handle timeouts. The server will only bother handling idle
if the option isn't negotiated. Your xterm client will negotiate it.
---Dan
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