Bizarre autologout problem

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008, David A. Bandel wrote:
>Folks,
>
>During the past two weeks while school down here had a break, I
>upgraded the server.  Since the upgrade (Debian testing/lenny), users
>whose logins are numbers are logging in and within 3-5 seconds are
>logged out.  This happens at a low level, as I can see it happen if I
>su - $user as root.  About 3-5 seconds after getting a good login
>where I can list the directory, etc., I am logged out.
>
>This only happens with numbered login account, otherwise identical
>login accounts that are names (alphas perhaps with a trailing number)
>are unaffected.
>
>Not sure what might be doing this.  Nothing in the logs -- auth.log
>shows the login was accepted.

Bash can use the TMOUT environment variable to cause a logout
after TMOUT seconds with no read activity from the terminal.
Setting this to 0 disables the time out.

Bill
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