Comments on: Howto: Linux Kill and Logout Users

By: Ammar Shaikh

Ammar Shaikh — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:56:53 +0000

Hello;

I m also not getting your question so please explain it briefly or understandable that is very helpful to you and all also…

By: Mehdi

Mehdi — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:22:21 +0000

Hi,

If all the sessions have been made by a user, i.e. vivek, is it possible to kill a session based on TTY?

By: Waqar

Waqar — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:52:04 +0000

That’s Because u also killed “SSH”, u need to login via console and restart SSH Services.

By: Naresh Kumar

Naresh Kumar — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:19:10 +0000

@ Vishnu,

You can use following command.
who -w|awk ‘{print $1}’|grep username|xargs skill -KILL -u

By: Vishnu Ram

Vishnu Ram — Thu, 26 May 2011 09:04:40 +0000

Hello,

I need to kill an user session which is not being used by that particular user for last 10 days. Please help me to get a script for that.

By: Mish

Mish — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:12:57 +0000

I wanna know, how to block the users being ruining programs in bios level.
this is like blocking websites for various users in bios level.

ex; user “A” logging and browse internet (www.google.com)
after user “B” logging and browse the internet BUT HE CANT GO TO “www.google.com” from any browser.

If you all have a suggestions how to block this kind of a session, I would be much appreciated.

By: Bilal Bhat

Bilal Bhat — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:27:51 +0000

Brilliant bishnoink, you made my life easy… Thanks for sharing the command…

By: bishnoink

bishnoink — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:01:34 +0000

I have tried “skill -KILL /dev/pts/*” its not working on rhel5.

alternative to kill all users sessions except “root” is:

who -w|awk ‘{print $1}’|grep -v root|xargs skill -KILL -u
*don’t forget to use “grep -v root” otherwise this will kill all the processes.

Thanks

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:54:04 +0000

According to the documentation, skill is obsolete and we should all be using pkill instead — see http://linux.die.net/man/1/skill

By: kaminisuresh

kaminisuresh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:05:46 +0000

hi
this is suresh i want which pc is having some server,how to identify which is having server

By: viper

viper — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:46:56 +0000

how about to remove halt application..
at the bios I can’t find to solve that..
thanx…

By: lee o

lee o — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:01:51 +0000

Something for Linux Monty Python fans - one of you show a more funny way of kicking users off a linux box than THIS ONE HERE.. Very entertaining!

By: Afrizal

Afrizal — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:16:16 +0000

Thank you for your shared knowledge.

Great info.

thanks,

zall

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:00:42 +0000

Only if you have another way of logging in (e.g. telnet, vnc, etc)

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:05:09 +0000

Oops didn’t read through all the threads. I had a user who was logged on remotely as root but when I ran the command we were kicked out of our SSH sessions
Is there any way to recover SSH functionality short of rebooting

By: De..

De.. — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:11:21 +0000

the process hang up and when i shen them it shows like “defunction”

By: De..

De.. — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:09:38 +0000

i want to delete the process because my systems average load is too high 150.0 and more some time
and when i delete them ..they goes to and start increasing the load continously..
the process are perl scripts..
please help urgent

By: deivs

deivs — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:38:44 +0000

script to logout the users in the specific time

By: Hong@macau

Hong@macau — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:34:18 +0000

i think when i enter this command
skill -KILL -u root

this will be kill all the process that create by root. such as ssh telnet process.

By: Masood Yarmohammadi

Masood Yarmohammadi — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:39:15 +0000

Hello,
i use
skill -KILL -u didi root

Now, i can’t login to ssh!