Paul Heinlein wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to lengthen that timeout value from 60 to, say, 180. This isn't the first time I've wanted to kill a runaway process and been unable to get a console because of that timeout.
At a guess, you should look at http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/linux_hllogin.html