terminate all sessions

KFC123 · 07-01-2009, 09:50 PM

Hi there,
I have a server running CentOS which allows user to logon remotely with ssh. As root, how can I write a script to terminate all session started by other users other than root?

stress_junkie · 07-01-2009, 10:40 PM

I'm not going to write your script for you but I will say that key components of such a script would be the kill utility and the killall utility.

Code:

man kill
man killall

lazlow · 07-01-2009, 11:46 PM

Assuming root is local, just shutdown the nics (dirty, but quick and effective).

chrism01 · 07-03-2009, 02:16 AM

Yep, if root is on the console then

service network stop

would do it, but a bit of a blunt instrument.

service sshd stop

is better.

I think you can tweak the sshd config and bounce sshd.??