Richard> I am possably over looking something then, as i belive
Richard> the only way to do what John wants is to recompile the
Richard> login program with a longer default timeout, its 60
Richard> seconds default.
Richard> If you belive that /etc/login.defs can be told to use a
Richard> longer timeout, please let us know how you do it, as 'man
Richard> login.defs' has no mention of any timeout feature.
Well, at least in Debian 2.0's /etc/login.defs it certainly tells
about it.
The banner of the file says (for version checking porpouses):
#
# /etc/login.defs - Configuration control definitions for the login package.
#
# $Id: login.defs.linux,v 1.8 1997/12/07 23:26:48 marekm Exp $
And later in the file, it says:
#
# Max time in seconds for login
#
LOGIN_TIMEOUT 60
So you only have to edit the line, and off you go.
73. EB2EBU.
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