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I was wondering if there is a way (as root, obviously) to kill another user's session (i.e. someone logged in from another VT, ssh, etc.)?...
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  1. 08-21-2003 #1
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    Killing a login.

    I was wondering if there is a way (as root, obviously) to kill another user's session (i.e. someone logged in from another VT, ssh, etc.)?
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    I don't know if it would work but worth a try. Run ps -ax then when you have the pid # (s) of the session/services just kill them. I'm not at work now so I can't test it. But it should work. I know shutdown -h now works
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    Thanks, flw. What I did was who to find out the vc/remote terminal ps -ax to find the PID running bash at that vc/terminal. Then I just did kill -s 9 PID and it killed the session.
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    Code:
    ajt@velocity ~ $ w
 22:06:34 up 1 day, 14:57,  4 users,  load average: 0.13, 0.17, 0.17
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
ajt      :0        Wed07   ?xdm?  26:34   1.44s /usr/bin/gnome-session
ajt      pts/0     19:48    1:52m  0.01s  0.01s -bash
ajt      pts/1     22:06    0.00s  0.03s  0.01s w
ajt      pts/2     21:20   38:16   0.00s  0.00s -bash
ajt@velocity ~ $ ps aux | grep pts/0
ajt       3807  0.0  0.1  2220 1304 pts/0    S    19:48   0:00 -bash
ajt      14774  0.0  0.0  1408  416 pts/1    R    22:06   0:00 grep pts/0
ajt@velocity ~ $ kill -9 3807
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  5. 08-22-2003 #5
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    I think you might wan't to take a look at slay. It does somewhat the same thing..

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/slay/
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