How to ssh connection when it is idle fo r a min ?

karthick87 · #1 16th June 2012, 01:43 AM

I am using Fedora v16. I just want to set timeout option to my ssh connection. If the connection is idle for a minute, i would like to disable the connection. How can i do this ? Could someone give me a possible solution pls ? Thanks in advance..

nonamedotc · #2 16th June 2012, 03:19 AM

Look at the option ClientAliveInterval in the sshd_config file.

Code:

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ClientAliveInterval 0
ClientAliveCountMax 3

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Doug G · #3 16th June 2012, 04:20 AM

If you're using the ssh connection yourself, you may not want to set a short timeout, or any timeout for that matter. Last time I had a timeout set in sshd I discovered it only looked at client in data to keep the connection alive. A long-running process on the server, even one that outputted to the terminal, would time out, drop the connection and kill the server process.

This was quite a few versions back, maybe f10 or f11'sh, and maybe that problem is gone now. I haven't set a timeout in sshd_config since.