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Old 11-13-2014
Question Terminate scp when user not enter the password.
Hi All,

Is there any way to terminate scp command when the password was not entered for some specific amount of time.
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Old 11-22-2014
SSH should disconnect the user after a given amount of time without the password being entered. You should eventually get an error with "pipe broken" or something to that regard.

However, this is controlled by the ssh on the server-side, not with scp itself. I'm sure the time-out period can be adjusted on the server, but I don't think this can be altered with the client itself. You may want to try researching the server-side configurations for limiting this instead.
 
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