Re: logging out a ssh-user

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi, Dennis Stampfer wrote:

> If he's logged in via telnet, I can do the job by killing that pid.  That
> does not work with ssh: For some reason, all what I get out of utmp is 
> the pid of the listening sshd which I can't kill if I don't want to 
> disable ssh-logins.

Wrong, actually. ssh forks twice before spawning a shell (I don't know
why); the child puts its PID into utmp, and the grandchild controls the
communication and spawns the login shell.

ssh should probably enter the grandchild's PID. This might be a bug in ssh.

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