[wellylug] SSHD on Debian and RedHat

[Simon Antliff]

On 9/28/05, Cliff Pratt <> wrote:
> I've used ssh (putty) to sshd on Debian with no problems.
> However on DeadRat the sessions seem to time out after a
> period of inactivity. Sure I could look at the man page or
> compare sshd_configs, but I thought I'd be lazy and enquire
> of the assembled gurus if anyone know the magic incantation
> that will stop my ssh sessions timing out. Please.


The solution is simple:

add

ClientAliveInterval <time in seconds>
ClientAliveCountMax <default is 3>

to your /etc/ssh/sshd_config


I set mine to 30 seconds and leave the count at 3, but thats because
I'm tunneling over ssl which has a 300 second timeout.


However, I think a good question is why is your putty session timing
out to stock standard sshd?

Simon