On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Aaron wrote:
> I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at
> work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I obviously
> have root on my box, but I wonder if there is any "official" or
> "proper" way to make a user leave the system?
>
> Something along the lines of a "kick" is what I'm after. I achieved
> the same result by killing his topmost bash process, but not only is
> that probably dangerous and unpredictable, it doesn't let me add a
> mean message ;-)
Shouldn't a real BOFH already know this? :-)
Off the top of my head, try:
1) w | grep yuppyscum to get the terminal number (#)
2) echo -e -n 'DIE SCUM!' > /dev/pts/#
3) pkill -u yuppyscum
I'm sure there are more elegant solutions, but I prefer the brute
forcefulness of this one. Plus, my way takes all of the user processes.
:) No (GNU) screen to the rescue.
~ Jesse Meyer
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