Disable SSH Timeouts [duplicate]
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ssh terminal session times out, how can this be changed
When ever I connect to a server using SSH with multiple windows, few connections get closed. It is probably because of ideal time. I have followed through this blog https://www.simplified.guide/ssh/disable-timeout and its not working for me. I don't have permission the server to make changes. I there any way to disable or extend the connection time. I am using Ubuntu 11.04
Thank you
Solution 1:
You can add the following to your local /etc/ssh/ssh_config
file (man ssh_config
):
ServerAliveInterval 60
where 60
is in seconds. This will cause your client to send a message to the SSH server every 60
seconds which should keep the connection alive.
You can also use screen
to open multiple terminals on one connection (apt-get install screen
). A nice thing about screen is that you can disconnect from the server but your processes keep running and you can reconnect later using screen -R
. I think this is the best way, personally.
If you had access to the server configs, you could also update the ClientAliveInterval
in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
on the server (man sshd_config
).