I have just tried it with another one of my accounts, and the way I found
the process was:
ps aux | grep <user>
Then when I had the users shell process ID from this, I used:
kill -9 <PID>
And this kicked the user off, (and no visible side effects...) I used who
to find the user name....
Tim Hughes
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Timothy P. Hughes
Associate Technical Analyst
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Gotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 10:50 AM
> To: Hughes, Timothy P
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: How do I...
>
>
> I thought about doing that but I can't see how to correlate
> the tty id I
> saw with "who" with a PID for a shell in "ps".
>
> -Rod
>
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Hughes, Timothy P wrote:
>
> > You could kill their shell. Looking in the process list
> (using ps), you
> > could kill the shell that they are using with the kill
> command. However, I
> > have never tried this, and do not know if there are any
> side effects to
> > doing this. (read as "really bad system stuff...")....:)
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > Timothy P. Hughes
> > Associate Technical Analyst
> > American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rod Gotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 7:18 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: How do I...
> > >
> > >
> > > I read the linux-learn faq and it is very good; however, it
> > > did not answer
> > > some of my questions:
> > >
> > > 1) Using "who" or "w" I can see who is logged in. How can I
> > > kick someone
> > > off, given the information from "who" ?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > -Rod
> > >
> >
>
