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Old 06-20-2005
Log-Off a user

Hi everybody,
First, Is the command who show all the users connected to my system? Is it equivalent to the commands last |grep still.
Second, How I can log-off a specific user?
Note: My system is AIX 4.3
# 2  
Old 06-21-2005
Hi,

yes with who you see who is looged in to your system ... the same is for finger if installed ...

To 'logout' a user, simply kill the shell of them ...

/malcom
# 3  
Old 06-23-2005
Thank you malcom for your response. Sorry, I didn't have much experince in UNIX. What do you mean by 'killing the shell'?, and how I can kill the shell?
# 4  
Old 06-26-2005
You want to logoff the user 'john'.
Code:
# w
  11:57AM   up 46 days,  18:02,  2 users,  load average: 1.01, 1.06, 1.06
User     tty          login@       idle      JCPU      PCPU what
john  pts/0       12:40PM       4:38         0         0 rlogin
bob   pts/1       11:57AM          0         0         0 /usr/bin/w64

You must kill the process of his shell. Every user logs into some kind of shell. In the below example john's shell is seen as '-ksh'. That is the process you need to kill.

Code:
# ps -ef|grep john
 john 290912 385216   0 12:40:44  pts/0  0:00 rlogin somenode
 john 323806 569424   0 12:40:35  pts/0  0:00 -ksh

We see the process id, or PID, is 323806. We pass that number to the 'kill' command with a signal of '-9' or TERMINATE.

Code:
# kill -9 323806

And he should be gone. Also consider the fact that whatever they are working on when you do this is lost if they have not saved their work.

I recommend you get your system admin to do this.
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