Logout Other Users By Name

[shanenin]

I have set up a user account for a friend. He uses my linux box for offsight storage. At night I sync up my two linux boxes. During that time I do not want him logged on. Is their a way to forcefully loghim out of my system using my root account?

[jcl]

You can disable logins (to keep him out) and then kill all of his processes.

[shanenin]

I guess I was hoping for an elegant command. Maybe one that would give the user a warning message. But the suggestion you gave works nice(effective)

Edited February 3, 2006 by shanenin

[jcl]

You can use wall to send a warning message before booting him.

Edited February 3, 2006 by jcl

[shanenin]

Thanks, I like the wall command.

I am still surprised linux being based on unix, a large multiuser system, their is no tool(command) that allows admins to logout users.

Edited February 3, 2006 by shanenin

[iccaros]

Thanks, I like the wall command.

I am still surprised linux being based on unix, a large multiuser system, their is no tool(command) that allows admins to logout users.

for by name you can use the logout command (but may need to play with it)

or if you are going to do maintnance

shutdown -H -t 60 now The system is shutting down

will log out everyone and put the system in init 1 so you can do what you need to do