Kicking users?

[R. Scott Belford]

I don't know if it is better, but we would use skill -SIGHUP -u (username)
to kill of users who would forget to log out of their pos station.  I
suppose it kills all processes the user is running rather than killing each
individually with the kill -9 pid.  There must be a system setting to log an
idle user off automatically that the wiser amongst us know about.  In the
meantime, maybe this helps a little.

scott

> From: Jeff Mings <jeffm at lava.net>
> Reply-To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:27:08 -1000
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
> Subject: [luau] Kicking users?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a better way to kick users (who forget to disconnect) than
> by killing their associated processes? E.g.,  if user test is logged on,
> and  ps --User test shows
> 12345 tty3 bash     I can simply  use kill -9 12345 to remove the
> forgetful user.  Is there a better command for killing off users?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jeff Mings
> 
> 
> 
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