Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!lsuc!dave 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 -- { uunet!mnetor pyramid!utai decvax!utcsri ihnp4!utzoo } !lsuc!dave Pronounce it ell-ess-you-see, please...