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From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 60-second timeout in Unix login
Message-ID: <1987Dec2.232123.14100@lsuc.uucp>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 23:21:22 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1987Dec2.232123.14100
Posted: Wed Dec  2 23:21:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 17:45:03 EST
References: <4139@venera.isi.edu>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
Lines: 28
Summary: we use 120 seconds here

cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
>The 60-second timeout in Unix login is not long enough.
> ...
>Has anyone else encountered this? Are there any others
>out there who would vote to increase the timeout from 60
>seconds to 180 seconds?

I changed it to 120 seconds on this (v7-based) system some years
ago.  We have computer-naive students (law students) using this
system, often with no-one around to help them and not a lot of
instruction on how to log in (they get a login/password sheet and
a set of access instructions and that's it; once they log in the
CAI system leads them by the hand).

I was reluctant to change the traditional UNIX "login:" and
"Password:" prompts, but I found that students would sometimes get
confused about what they should be typing, when they were first
starting.  (Since we have 1100 new students a year, in only takes
a small percentage of people who can't follow instructions...)
With a 120-second delay, they usually have enough time to figure
it out by trial and error.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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