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Subject: Re: sshd times out and disconnects client
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Hello Linus H. and others,
  Ok! The quick reply was especially helpful today. Thanks very much,
Linus, for the expert advice! I edited /etc/sshd_config according to your
information and stopped and restarted sshd. Then logged in from a Linux
box  and all seems well.
  Cygwin still rocks.
      Soren Andersen

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM C. Linus Hicks <linush AT mindspring DOT com>
wrote:

> On the server side, you can update the sshd_config file and set the value
> of the ClientAliveInterval to a non-zero value, like 60 seconds. Or you can
> set the ServerAliveInterval option to a similar value in your client
> options, either on the command line or in your local config file.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soren <somian08 AT gmail DOT com>
> Sent: Mar 28, 2025 2:25 PM
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Subject: sshd times out and disconnects client
>
> Hello Cygwinstas,
>
> I've got a question about the cygwin ssh daemon running on Windows. I don't
> know if there is a setting in sshd or in Windows that would alter the
> behavior I am seeing. That's what I am hoping for.
>
> When logging in from a Linux system to my Windows 10 box, there's a timeout
> (of what duration, I am not precisely sure, maybe after 2 hours?) if I am
> not doing anything over the ssh connection. The session is disconnected at
> the server end. I find this a bit annoying. I might want to be doing
> something else for a couple hours and then come back to the session, only
> to find it's disconnected. This is in contrast to the reverse case, where I
> am logging in to one of my Linux boxes from Windows: in that case, the
> connection stays alive until I deliberately close it. The same with
> sessions between Linux machines. It's only in the case of incoming
> connections to sshd on cygwin/windows that I am seeing this.
>
> Insights greatly appreciated.
> Regards,
> Your fellow loyal Cygwinista, Soren Andersen
>
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