Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:35:10 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: Jonathan Hilgeman <JHilgeman@ecx.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Log Out Other Users Message-ID: <3BFBF3DE.3060306@magpage.com> References: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3F06C@mailsvr.ecx.com>
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Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > When I type "who" I get a list of about 4 users who are logged in via SSH. I > know some of them are old sessions that just timed out or something, so I > find the PIDs of the SSH processes, and kill those PIDs. However, sometimes > this doesn't do the trick. They disappear entirely from the process list, > but they continue to show up when I type who. Is there a better way to kill > users? > > - Jonathan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > "shutdown -k" might do the trick, although this will result in all logins (except root) being disabled. "rm /var/run/nologin" will fix that. You also might want to look at /usr/ports/sysutils/slay. This will kick off a user and terminate any of that users' processes. I think it will only work on one user at a time, though... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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