Sorry to be a bore, but never trap signal 9. Also avoid issuing "kill -9" unless you are absolutely desparate to shut a system down.
In a unix shell script this is sufficient to stop the user being left at a shell prompt:
To confine the user to a shell script the following line in their profile is what you need.
With the proviso that the script contains the correct trap statement.
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Reason: layout & ambiguous use of the word "trap" !
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