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  1. 05-11-2009 #1
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    forcing a user to logout

    I m logged in as root and want to logout some other user on some other terminal. How can I accomplish that.
    Only if I could understand the man pages
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    Give him a warning message with "write" so he has time to save his work.
    After the countdown, kill the daemon process that serves his connection (ssh, telnet,...).
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    thanks for replying
    but I m working on my on pc . The tty2 is stuck and has become unresponsive. So wanted to kill that tty. Is there a way out.
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    Yes, just kill the process that serves the connection.
    The connection will be closed automatically after this.
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    suppose there is a user named vickey on my pc
    then how do i kill the tty on which he is logged on.
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    ps aux | less
    spacebar pages through less
    find the tty that vickey is using, find process ID
    q to quit less
    kill PID
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