Timeline for How do you kick a benign user off your system?
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| Oct 15, 2014 at 19:11 | history | edited | Andrew B | CC BY-SA 3.0 | clarified that "kill -HUP sshd" will cleanup child shells |
| Oct 15, 2014 at 18:10 | comment | added | wkschwartz | To make this answer explicit, what I did was: echo "Hasta la vista, baby" | write user_name pty_name && sleep 30 && killall -u user_name -HUP(the sleep gives the user the chance to save and log off, but you're probably only using this on a user who forgot to log off anyway) | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 17:54 | comment | added | Andrew Falanga | While the pseudo-omnipotent feeling that accompanies a kill -9 is fun, this suggestion is probably better. An up-vote from me. | |
| Jan 7, 2013 at 23:45 | history | answered | Andrew B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |