Ssh Configure the SSH Connection Timeout

Internal

• OpenSSH Operations
• sshd Configuration

Overview

Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data has been received from the client, sshd will send a message through the encrypted channel to request a response from the client. The default is 0, indicating that these messages will not be sent to the client.

Server-Side Configuration

Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

ClientAliveInterval 300
ClientAliveCountMax 0

Client-Side Configuration

Not Tested Yet!

Create ~/.ssh/ssh_config and add:

ServerAliveInterval 60 

then:

chmod go-rwx ssh_config