Why did shell timeout was not considered as common Critera EAL4 Configuration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2?

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Issue

  • Building servers based on the Common Criteria EAL4 configuration from cc-eal4-config-rhel62-0.33-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm.
  • Part of this configuration updates /etc/profile to run screen at the end of it's execution.
  • For init-scripts that run su - as part of there start-up, this results in a shell prompt on the console during startup.
  • Also it appears that screen is being used as a terminal lock for inactivity, why using a shell timeout by setting the TMOUT environment variable wasn't considered for making it readonly?
  • Was the shell timeout considered alongside the screen option and if so what were the reasons for selecting screen over the shell timeout?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • cc-eal4-config-rhel62-0.33-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm.

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