Kicking out other users Revision as of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:56 UTC
You must be superuser for both.
On Linux
Issue the simple w command:
[root@zenith ~]# w
15:17:55 up 1 day, 3:35, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.01
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root pts/0 dhcpw80ff96bc.dy 13:24 0.00s 0.04s 0.00s w
tomc pts/3 dhcpw70gghjbc.dy 13:24 0.00s 0.04s 0.00s w
Looks like the user tomc is logged into terminal 3. Kick the user
out of his session by:
pkill -9 -u tomc -t pts/3
On OS X
Find out the PID of the loginwindow process for a given user you want
to kick.
ps auxwww|grep loginwindow
In this case, we want to log out the user bennifer
bennifer 15015 0.0 0.2 281680 7188 ?? Ss 11:06AM 0:00.69 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console
root 15208 0.0 0.0 66152 88 s000 R+ 1:30PM 0:00.00 grep loginwindow
Now kill the PID 15015
kill -9 15015