Re: kill someone logged on

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 02:06 pm, debian wrote:
> please,
>
> finger reports
>
> Login     Name                 Tty      Idle  Login Time   Office    
> Office Phone alice     Miss Alice Mc Cool  *:0             Sep  6 17:25
> joe       Joe Mc Cool         *tty1     1:17  Sep  6 20:24
> joe       Joe Mc Cool         *pts/2          Sep  7 13:40
> (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
>
> that last entry is me, having forgotten to log off from my office machine
> while sshing to this box.  (ip address xx'd)

In this case, is there some reason you can't just kill that particular ssh 
process?

Hal