inactivity timeout or disconnect

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 03 September 2008 20:39:12 Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
> jose otero wrote:
> > I ran into the same problem (with respect to keyboard activity). You
> > can create a timer that fires when your inactivity criteria is met.
> > You can restart your timer when a carriage return is entered or if a
> > single character is typed. When the timer function executes make sure
> > you clean-up the appropriate resources (file descriptors, memory,
> > etc). Hope this helps.
>
> I think most of you failed to read that this is not an interactive remote
> signon, this is just a reverse port forward executed in batchmode and
> it does not execute any shell on the server.
>
> Anyway I have got some progress by patching the dropbear source code,
> it does not seem to be that difficult a change. I am testing if it has any
> undesirable side effects.

Actually what I'd do is make a "timeout" command that works like cat except it 
drops the connection after a certain amount of activity (close stdin, close 
stdout, exit program), then insert it in the pipeline.  No real need to 
modify ssh for this.

Rob