Users Are Logged Out After 10 Minutes with Message "timed out waiting for input: auto-logout"

Applies to: 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later 

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 5.0 and later 

Linux x86-64 

 

Symptoms 

After 10 minutes of idle time, users are logged out with the following message:

timed out waiting for input: auto-logout 

 

Cause 

TMOUT=600 is set in /etc/profile and therefore every user is logged out after 10 minutes of idle time 

  

Solution 

TMOUT can be changed directly in /etc/profile and set to a longer period (in seconds) or it can be completely disabled by commenting it out.