How can I force other users to log out?
 

I've been using the PuTTY client to administer my linux desktop from around the house (on my wife's wireless laptop) a lot lately.

Yesterday I noticed from a "users" command that there are about 5 old logons still sitting around logged in. A couple are root, a couple are my logon, and one is a 3rd logon we have in the system.

How can I force those users to exit/logout?

Are they left hanging around because I had been typing "exit" to leave PuTTY, or maybe from shutting PuTTY down without even typing exit?

I've looked through the man pages quite a lot now, and done various apropos searches, but with no luck finding the right administrative command.

Thanks,

Warren

you probably will have to kill the process ID (PID) manually for each one you can identify.

What I usually do is 'ps aux | grep bash' and kill the user's bash session.