> 1) Using "who" or "w" I can see who is logged in. How can I kick someone
> off, given the information from "who" ?
Once you see that they're logged in, do "ps ax | grep username" with
their user name in place of username. Find the instance of their shell
with the earliest start time and kill it. For example:
# ps ax | grep bkocik
bkocik 21824 21816 0 09:43:56 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /home/bkocik/.xinitrc
bkocik 27918 1 0 12:41:23 ? 2:29 /usr/local/bin/netscape
bkocik 21955 1 0 09:44:34 ? 0:01 perfmeter skynet -geometry 72x439-0-70
bkocik 25863 1 0 Oct 13 ? 0:00 rsh -n hdwrx8 olvwm
bkocik 21965 1 0 09:44:43 ? 0:09 perfmeter notes -geometry 72x439-425-70
In this case, pid 21824 is an instance of my shell (/bin/sh) that was
started at 09:43:56. So, "kill -9 21824" would log me out quite
forcefully. The output you're looking at above is actually from the "ps
-ef | grep bkocik" command in Solaris, and is only part of the actual
output I got (I'm a lot busier than the processes above make me look
:-). It will look different in Linux but you can see what it's all
about. There are other ways to do this I'm sure, but this is one.
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Bill Kocik
Information Systems
Medar, Inc.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.medar.com
