Re: Logging users off..
Richard.Dansereau@ee.umanitoba.ca wrote:
>Hi all!
>I was wondering if Debian has any admin programs that would allow
>root to log off a user and kill off all of their processes?
Yes, try the fancy little program called "slay" which can easily be
located at sunsite, it workes just fine; simply "slay username" and it
kills all the processes of the user and thus kicking him out.
>We have tried simple scripts which would do a kill on all user
>processes. Unfortunately this has given some other problems
>with not always logging the user off properly in the utmp
>file and not always getting xdm to pop the login screen back
>on the console.
>Cheers!
>Richard..
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>Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada
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