Extra users!
Randy Kelsoe
randykel at swbell.net
Wed Aug 25 16:28:48 UTC 2004
Matthew Miller wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:23:53AM -0500, Randy Kelsoe wrote:
>
>
>>To kill a user, you can try killall <username>. I have not tried that
>>with linux, but it worked for a unix machine I had.
>>
>>
>
>What flavor of Unix? Be careful running this command at random on unknown
>*nix varieties -- on Solaris, for example, it kills *all* processess...
>
This worked with SGI IRIX. I had a user login and play a prank on me by
playing a sound file in a loop. Somehow he logged in with tcsh and I was
not able to kill the process he was using. I tried a 'killall username'
(or maybe a kill -9 username) and that got rid of him.
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