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TMOUT – Auto Logout Linux Shell When There Isn’t Any Activity

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Ravi Saive
Oct 8, 2017

How often do you leave a Linux system idle after login; a situation which can be referred to as an ???idle session???, where you are not attending to the system by running commands or any administration tasks.

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Ravi Saive

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