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Increasing SSH Timeouts

By Ravi Karamsetty | February 15, 2014 |

Technology

Here are the steps to increase ssh timeout at the server level on Linux OS: These steps are performed on CentOS: Modify the following directives by editing the sshd config file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config TCPKeepAlive yes ClientAliveInterval 30 ClientAliveCountMax 99999 Restart SSH Demon after modifying the config file: [root@mars ~]# service sshd restart Stopping sshd: [ … Continue reading “Increasing SSH Timeouts”