Filed under: Hardening :: by Jan Seidl :: I’m always concerned about leaving terminal sessions open. I’ve used for many and many years the $TMOUT environment variable to close my sessions if idle for N seconds. Just by exporting the TMOUT variable to the number of desired timeout seconds will close your shell (Bash, Ksh, En savoir plus surTerminal auto-lock with zsh and vlock | wroot[…]