Root Account Timeout

[Peter_APIIT]

Dear All,

I'm tried to setup root account timeout by edited .profile
TMOUT=60

but this does not causes the root account been logout after inactive for 2 minutes.

Is this features is applicable to OpenBSD?

Please enlighten on this.

[jggimi]

This environment variable is documented in the ksh(1) man page, and, this works for me when I export this as an environment variable. I'll guess that you failed to export the variable, so it remained local to .profile and was not exported to the environment.

From ksh(1):

     Parameters with the export attribute (set using the export or typeset -x
     commands, or by parameter assignments followed by simple commands) are
     put in the environment (see environ(7)) of commands run by the shell as
     name=value pairs.

[IdOp]

Originally Posted by Peter_APIIT

TMOUT=60

but this does not causes the root account been logout after inactive for 2 minutes.

Also, the TMOUT value is in seconds, so 60 would be 1 minute, not 2.

[Peter_APIIT]

I'm know that TMOUT is in seconds.

Questions:
I'm think I had mess up with the .profile file.
When I'm issue this command export TMOUT=60 > .profile. The default content of file gone and display blank afterwards. What wrong with it ?

Both .profile file under /home/user and under / root directory also gives the same problem.
Besides that, export pkg_path does not add to the .profile file as well.

How to restore it or is this a normal situation?

Thanks for the help.

[bsd-keith]

To append (add to) a file use >>, not > which overwrites (creates) it.

Edit: echo "export TMOUT=60" >> .profile

[Peter_APIIT]

Originally Posted by bsd-keith

To append (add to) a file use >>, not > which overwrites (creates) it.

Edit: echo "export TMOUT=60" >> .profile

How to restore back those files to original content? Thanks.

[jggimi]

From backup. If you do not have a backup, you can extract the original files manually from the base57.tgz fileset, using tar(1).

[Peter_APIIT]

Where to find the base57.tgz file?

Can anyone copy the file content of .profile to here?
I could not find the .profile file under base57.tgz

Thanks. I'll working on it later.

[bsd-keith]

You will find it on your install media, or online such as, for example,
ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/i386/

[Peter_APIIT]

Can anyone copy the file content of .profile to here?

[jggimi]

Click here.

[jggimi]

Filesets

When you use tar(1) to scan the base57.tgz fileset for "profile", you don't find the /root/.profile. Here's an example with the i386 fileset, which only shows a Perl support file:

$ tar tzf base57.tgz | grep profile
./usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/i386/profile.ph
$

This is because the etc*.tgz fileset is no longer shipped separately. It is, instead, included within the base* fileset:

$tar tzf base57.tgz | grep etc.tgz
./usr/share/sysmerge/etc.tgz
$

If we extract the fileset within, we can then search it.

$ tar xzf base57.tgz ./usr/share/sysmerge/etc.tgz
$ tar tzf usr/share/sysmerge/etc.tgz | grep profile
./.profile
./etc/skel/.profile
./root/.profile
$

Because of this layered fileset approach, new with 5.7, you will find a copy of the etc.tgz internal fileset already stored in your system, within /usr/sysmerge.

Backups

Peter,

This project file is available in many different ways, including the CVS source repositories, which is what I provided in the link earlier today.

But what if this file had been yours, and not a Project file?

You need to determine an appropriate backup strategy, develop it, test it, and implement it. Had this file been your data, it would be have been lost.

[Peter_APIIT]

Originally Posted by jggimi

Click here.

In short, I'm just need to copy the whole content of this file into my .profile because I'm suspect some of the content is not exists in my default .profile. Right.

My .profile was in default content. Therefore, no worry about the content. I'll develop the backup strategy later.

Thanks jggmi.

[Peter_APIIT]

Problem solved. Thanks.