On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:47 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 8:52 pm, Jim wrote: > > can i chnge the default time i'm able to run as root in my user > > account the default is like 5 minutes. > > if so how and where do i make this change > > > You can set this setiing by using an environment variable called TMOUT. > Just modify your root account's .bashrc and set it there. Like this: > > export TMOUT=300 > > Put this in /home/root/.bashrc > What fedora version are you using that has root's home directory as /home/root? On all mine it has been /root > > After that, whenever you switch to root (using "su -") you'll get kicked out > after 5 minutes of inactivity. Remember to use "su -" because if you don't , > the shell won't read root's initial environment files (.bash_profile, bashrc > etc...). > > HTH, > Jorge >
