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Help with Kill Command

I am running Solaris 9. I have a problem with kill command. I'm sort of teaching myself so this might be a really stupid thing. I logged in as a normal user, lets say ABC, and then did "su" to root. After becoming root, I tried to kill the process started by ABC by saying

kill -9 "pid of ABC"

but the problem is, it is shutting off the entire session and logging off "root" too. Is this essentially killing the shell itself? If so, how do I stay logged in as root and kill the other users shell or specific processes??

Help appreciated, I'm new to this, I'm dumb so open to constructive criticism Smilie
 
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