Hi, On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 19:14, Yanagisawa, Koji <yanagik317 at 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