Re: Killing session remotely?
Okay,
Login remotely using whatever ID and enter "su -" The machine will ask for the root password. Enter that and type: "ps -fA | grep gnome" (otherwise you'll be flooded with PID's....). If you can't find the session, enter "ps -fA | less" so you'll be able to scroll through the entire process list.
A guru-friend of mine came up with this one:
Go to the machine (physically, that is) and press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This should kill the x-session.
Once the X-session is killed, do the same with the user that screwed up in the 1st place ;-)
Pad Bambury <celt_086@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Richard,
> thanks for the advice. Must confess serious newbie
> status however and am very chary of messing stuff up.
> How would I find the pid exactly? Say the user acc
> was called jeff. Should I
> 1. shell in under my own acc
> 2. then su to jeff? or just run ps aux?
> Have done so, and ps aux seems only to give status up
> until Apr 20, 3 days before session started, and for
> recent processes today. Not even sure of what to look
> for exactly.
> In other words the command "last" shows the user jeff
> still logged in, but ps aux gives no processes for
> jeff.
> Any way out of this?
> Thanks,
> Pad.
>
>
>
> --- punt45ACP@netscape.net wrote:
> > Get in remotely, do an "su -" and a "kill -9 <pid>"
> > That should do the job!
> >
> > Regards//Richard
> > Pad Bambury <celt_086@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey all,
> > > someone, somehow at my workplace left a gnome
> > session
> > > running on a pc while managing to get back to the
> > > login screen. Now nobody can login to that
> > particular
> > > pc, except remotely. Is there a way of remotely
> > > terminating this session? Any help would be
> > welcome.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Pad.
> > >
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