what is the correct way to kill users session?

[Richard D. Williams]

find the user you want to kill off;

# w -u richardw
  12:21:59 up 70 days, 21:00, 94 users,  load average: 6.83, 5.00, 4.12
USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
richardw pts/2    richard          12:19    7.00s  0.18s  0.06s w -u 
richardw


Here is a handy script I use;

/usr/local/kill_pts

# as root.
# usage: # kill_pts pts/2
ps --no-headers -t $1 | sort -nr | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs /bin/kill -15

If you are a sudo user;
ps --no-headers -t $1 | sort -nr | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs sudo 
/bin/kill -15


If the target user is in as root, you may have to clean up the bash;

# ps -t pts/2
   PID TTY          TIME CMD
26723 pts/2    00:00:00 bash

i.e.
#kill -9 26723

On 11/12/2020 11:18 AM, Tony Freehauf via Filepro-list wrote:
> what is the correct way to kill users session?  do i use
>
> kill sighup (1) Pid number ?
>
> or is it kill SIGHUP(1) ?
>
> adivse needed
>
> thanks - old tony
>
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