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]

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

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

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

Or checks to see if they modified their config file?

No.

[phoney]

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

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

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

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]

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.

Restart you openvpn server ....

Please see:
HOWTO: Request Help !

[TinCanTech]

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

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]

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.

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]

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

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

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

Or checks to see if they modified their config file?

No.

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Can you help at all with that? Been stuck for weeks. Thanks