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Shell Autologout with TMOUT

Adding the TMOUT environment variable to your shell startup scripts will automatically log out of an interactive shell after the specified number of seconds.

Code Listing 1: .bash_profile

// Timeout if no input is given for 1 hour  
TMOUT=3600

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