be aware newbie: Shell consoles remain opened even after login out of web interface, is that a feature or a bug ?

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Julian33

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Hi,

I found confusing today when I woke up my computer that my proxmox 8.4 web session was closed ( as expected timeout). However I had a couple of shell consoles open into a couple of nodes. Those remained open and accessible after I was kicked out of the main web console.

I was not expecting it and I consider it undesirable at least...leaning into the security side of thing.

For your consideration.

JC

Proxmox no sub 8.4
 
Julian33 said:
However I had a couple of shell consoles open into a couple of nodes. Those remained open and accessible after I was kicked out of the main web console.
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Please explain more:
  • what console type (noVNC, xtermjs, serial)
  • what virtualization type (LXC or KVM/QEMU)
  • what guest OS
 
proxmox is running baremetal x86
these are consoles into proxmox nodes
root@pve:~# uname -a
Linux pve 6.8.12-13-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PMX 6.8.12-13 (2025-07-22T10:00Z) x86_64 GNU/Linux

192.168.xxx.xxx:8006/?console=shell&xtermjs=1&vmid=0&vmname=&node=pve&cmd=

is this sufficient detail ? please let me know if there is anything I can add.
 
LnxBil said:
Ah okay. I have to say that I never login to my PVE with root@pam and those consoles are only available to root@pam (at the moment). I've seen something related on the developer mailinglist, yet AFAIK it did not hit the non-testing repositories, yet.

What you can do is to setup an auto logout for most known shells.
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Thanks this is for a personal lab and .. I am learning. I may be doing a number of dumb things for now. I am OK if you consider this is covered on your side.

Cheers

JC
 
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