Extra users!

[Randy Kelsoe]

Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:23:53AM -0500, Randy Kelsoe wrote:
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>>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.
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>What flavor of Unix? Be careful running this command at random on unknown
>*nix varieties -- on Solaris, for example, it kills *all* processess...
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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.