Re: [CentOS] Force close on unattended SSH/SFTP connections

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 19:14, Yanagisawa, Koji yanagik317@netscape.net wrote:

I need unattended OpenSSH and its SFTP connections to be closed after a while (say, in 10 minutes).

I believe you can do that with iptables, using the ipt_recent module. I did not test it or did it before, but looking at the man page it looks like a tool that could be used to implement just that.

See "man iptables" and look for "recent". The examples usually do the opposite (block someone for a certain amount of time), but you should be able to come up with the rules to do what you want on your own.

See also http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/

HTH, Filipe