Force logout

bfloeagle · 01-06-2003, 09:17 AM

How do you force a logout of a user on your system?

Here's the setup:
A user is logged in to the server.
I log into server via SSH and SU to root.
That user is taking doing too much and needs to be kicked.

How do I as root, remotely, kick that user?

TIA!
Andy

NSKL · 01-06-2003, 09:49 AM

ps aux and get the PID of his bash, then kill -9 <PIDofBASH> and the user will get logged out.
-NSKL

Ceonic · 01-06-2003, 12:20 PM

You can try that command:

pgrep -u <username> bash|xargs kill -9

That are ready for making script.
Somthing like:

kickuser.sh
#!/bin/bash
pgrep -u $1 bash|xargs kill -9

enjoy

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barrynewt · 01-07-2003, 11:14 AM

control alt backspace.
seems to work for me.

then · 01-07-2003, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by barrynewt
control alt backspace.
seems to work for me.

AFAIK that key-combo shuts down X and takes you back to your default run level. Didn't know it kills network connections too. Could some one please confirm this??

Regards
theN