Forcefully disconnect or drop users help
 

Greetings,

I have many windows clients hooking into a mandrake server.

I would like to forcefully drop one windows client only known by IP address (at least that's all I can see!) from the mandrake server without affecting service to other clients.

A gui would be nice but a command will be OK

Thanks!

HoOLi

drop in what way? What service are they connected to? You could just block traffic from that machine on your firewall.
iptables -A INPUT -source xx.xxx.xxx.x -j DROP

One option:
From that determine the PID of the offending user and kill it.
or to be really forceful If you need to keep him off, you can add his IP to a deny list (in my case I use tcp wrappers, so that would be /etc/hosts.deny). The method from the previous poster should work too, although I don't think it would kill his current session.

Oh yea... true depending on how your firewall is configured. If you allow established connections by default then you will have problems with my suggestion.

Thanks guys,

I think uopjohnson's solution using iptables -A INPUT -source xx.xxx.xxx.x -j DROP will do the trick.

The windows clients are passing through the linux box as a proxy to go to a DMZ box. Users per se aren't able to be seen on the linux box as PID's. I know I didn't include that bit!

I have been exposed to windows too much where I could only think of mcc/computer management and browsing session/threads and killing them off that way.

Again thanks a lot! I had forgotten tcpwrappers anomie - I'll pop that snippet backet in the toolbag.

Cheers
HoOLi