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On Tuesday 08 August 2006 2:27 pm, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
Short of rebooting, how to close an open session of a user who is logged in? If the user is logged in either via text mode or remotely, there is a controlling terminal. The who(1) command will tell you the controlling terminal of that user. All you need to do is to find out the top level shell and kill it:
[me@olduvai me]$ who me pts/1 Aug 3 08:01 (sys254.aaa.bbb.ccc.com) user1 pts/2 Aug 3 11:01 (bart.ddd.com) user2 pts/3 Aug 5 02:47 (pool-141-149-182-8.bos.east.verizon.net) [gaf@olduvai gaf]$ ps ax | grep pts/2 6224 ? S 0:00 sshd: user1@pts/2 6225 pts/2 S 0:00 -bash 407 pts/1 R 0:00 grep pts/2 As root you can kill either process 6224 or 6225. This will force that user off. If you want to log out the user who logged in via the x session on the console, then kill the entire x session. I prefer using the 'init 3' approach, but you can also kill the X session: 5196 tty7 Ss+ 55:34 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-WXGTlf $ kill -TERM 5196 -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9