Is there a way to logout an inactive user after nn minutes?

[Marty Ryan]

In article <11395 at ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick at acd.acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) writes:
>Re: AIX3.1.5, is there a way to logout an inactive user after nn minutes of
>inactivity?  This would help us to manage a situation where a terminal is
>shut off (via a network switch) but the user stays logged on.  Is there a
>PD utility to accomplish this?  Thanks.  --Tim
>

In the ksh, there is an environment variable, TMOUT, which specifies the
number of minutes the shell will wait inactive before exiting. If you
were to set this in /etc/profile, all ksh users would be handled. I don't
know if the csh has a similar construct.