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

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:15:50 +0000

@Subhendu,

Mostly it will work, just give it a try and see…

Subhendu Kumar Rana — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 06:44:54 +0000

Will it work in GUI mode?

Aaron Kili — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:17:50 +0000

@Andras

Thanks for the useful tip, we are grateful.

Andras Kovacs — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:45:45 +0000

It’s definitely a bad practice. On most distros, you SHOULDN’T edit /etc/profile.

Put your custom config files as drop-in scripts here: /etc/profile.d/.

@Denny Snyder recommended a much better and complete solution which probably came from CIS Benchmark.

Regards,
Andris

Aaron Kili — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:08:55 +0000

In reply to Denny Snyder.

@Denny

Great! Many thanks for sharing!