Kicking a user off after 30 minutes idle (server side)?

phoney

After 30 minutes I am wanting to kick the user from our VPN network, this is because we get charged for every connection open and people leave their connections open on their laptops. I can add a client-side configuration to remove them from our server, but the user can modify their OpenVPN conf file and remove these 4 lines (which are shown below).

auth-nocache
inactive 900
ping 10
ping-exit 60

Is there a way on the server side, that kicks the user off after 30 minutes? Or checks to see if they modified their config file?

Any information would be much appreciated

TinCanTech

phoney wrote because we get charged for every connection open and people leave their connections open on their laptops

phoney wrote Is there a way on the server side, that kicks the user off after 30 minutes?

Try using --inactive 900 in the server config ..

phoney wrote Or checks to see if they modified their config file?

No.

phoney

TinCanTech wrote
phoney wrote because we get charged for every connection open and people leave their connections open on their laptops
phoney wrote Is there a way on the server side, that kicks the user off after 30 minutes?
Try using --inactive 900 in the server config ..

phoney wrote Or checks to see if they modified their config file?
No.

I tried putting inactive 900 in /etc/openvpn/server.conf but to no avail - is that correct? I put it at the bottom of the .conf file and restart MySQL connected on a new PC and waited.

Also, if I do the inactive 900 on the client side, I don't need the 4 other lines in my CLIENT conf file (the lines mentioned in my original post)

Thanks for the response too!

TinCanTech

phoney wrote I tried putting inactive 900 in /etc/openvpn/server.conf but to no avail - is that correct?

phoney wrote I put it at the bottom of the .conf file and restart MySQL connected on a new PC and waited.

Restart you openvpn server ....

Please see:
HOWTO: Request Help !

TinCanTech

TinCanTech wrote
phoney wrote Or checks to see if they modified their config file?
No.

In fact, you can push --inactive, which is almost what you need but the client can filter that out.

So, this

TinCanTech wrote
phoney wrote Is there a way on the server side, that kicks the user off after 30 minutes?
Try using --inactive 900 in the server config ..

is still the only way sure way.

phoney

TinCanTech wrote
phoney wrote I tried putting inactive 900 in /etc/openvpn/server.conf but to no avail - is that correct?
phoney wrote I put it at the bottom of the .conf file and restart MySQL connected on a new PC and waited.
Restart you openvpn server ....

Please see:
HOWTO: Request Help !

Sorry, I meant restart my OpenVPN server.. not MySQL lol

I will include inactive 900 in the server.conf file and remove the other stuff from the client config file (being those 4 lines in my original post).

Thank you very much. It wont reconnect automatically will it?

phoney

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