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 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
