Logout Users

carlosinfl · 09-10-2006, 06:05 PM

When I run the command "users", I can see all the users logged into the box either locally or remotely. I would like to know how I can end someones session from the box. I can see below from the command that I (cwilliams) am logged in twice which is my GUI session and also my open terminal window. I think I may have ctl alt + F1 and logged in as root but how do I log out root from my current GUI session?

Code:

cwilliams@stormshadow:~$ users
cwilliams cwilliams root

Tinkster · 09-10-2006, 07:27 PM

Try w instead of users; gives you more detail. You can then compare the pts/tty
against the output of ps -A ... Getting rid of a session is then as easy as killing it ;}

Cheers,
Tink

carlosinfl · 09-11-2006, 07:24 AM

Once I have "w" output in front of me, what can I do next to kill that users session?

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~$ w
 08:23:48 up 2 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.31, 0.21, 0.09
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
cwilliam :0       -                08:21   ?xdm?  26.04s  0.29s x-session-manag
cwilliam pts/0    :0.0             08:23    0.00s  0.12s  0.00s w

Tinkster · 09-11-2006, 01:28 PM

What I said above :)
Determine with TTY the process you want to kill is running
on, run ps -A, look for the tty in ps' output, remember the PID
and kill it.

Cheers,
Tink

rhce1arun · 09-11-2006, 01:47 PM

hai
the possible answer is you can give ctrl+d or type exit or type logout. you will easily get out of the gui terminal

hope you will get the answer

raazman · 05-10-2007, 12:57 PM

so in this case it would be

Code:

ps -A 0