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What were you trying to do that didn't work? STIG and other organizations require implementing StopIdleSessionSec=xxx in /etc/systemd/logind.conf. With latest RHEL8.9, it appears 2 issues arise when using the feature: The session disconnects even not when being idle Executing anything spawning a pager will end up getting disconnected, e.g. with following the journal and hitting Enter every second, or through browsing a man page and use the arrow keys. When specifying KillUserProcesses=no to let runaway processes execute in the background, processes are killed anyway, e.g. [user@vm-logind8 ~]$ nohup sleep 1234 & [1] 1705 nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out' [user@vm-logind8 ~]$ <<< wait for idle timeout Connection to vm-logind8 closed by remote host. The journal shows sleep got killed: Feb 06 11:08:54 vm-logind8 systemd-logind[786]: Session "5" of user "user" is idle, stopping. Feb 06 11:08:54 vm-logind8 systemd[1]: session-5.scope: Killing process 1646 (sshd) with signal SIGTERM. Feb 06 11:08:54 vm-logind8 systemd[1]: session-5.scope: Killing process 1649 (sshd) with signal SIGTERM. Feb 06 11:08:54 vm-logind8 systemd[1]: session-5.scope: Killing process 1650 (bash) with signal SIGTERM. Feb 06 11:08:54 vm-logind8 systemd[1]: session-5.scope: Killing process 1705 (sleep) with signal SIGTERM. This hence tends to indicate that KillUserProcesses=no is just ignored by StopIdleSessionSec=xx. Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen: systemd-239-78.el8.x86_64 How reproducible: Always, see above description. Steps to reproduce Set StopIdleSessionSec=60 and restart logind Connect as a user, start browsing a manpage and use arrow keys to move in the manpage After 60 seconds the connection closes automatically despite moving in the manpage

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