killing a users ssh session

acid2000 · 03-17-2003, 08:52 AM

How do you kill someone elses ssh session?

acid2000 · 03-17-2003, 09:04 AM

You kill their ssh session.

frieza · 03-17-2003, 09:23 AM

by finding the pid and killing it

find out what pty terminal they are on (pty/#) and then look that pty terminal up in the process manager, and kill the pid with the ppid of 1 on that terminal, note i'm not sure, but i don't think stopping the sshd will affect any established connectcions, only prevent new ones

m0rl0ck · 03-17-2003, 09:59 AM

ps aux -ww|grep $username |grep -v grep|grep sshd

will return something like:

m0rl0ck 1636 0.0 1.4 6048 1824 ? S 10:49 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd

The second feild above is the PID so just :

kill -9 1636

or what ever the number happens to be.

acid2000 · 03-17-2003, 10:05 AM

Found the answer for my question, thanks anyway.

m0rl0ck · 03-17-2003, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Found the answer for my question, thanks anyway.

What was it?

If you didnt kill it by pid how did you do it?

doublefailure · 03-17-2003, 10:17 AM

i think he meant he found similar solution somewhere else and saw your answer