RE: log-out a user - How To

["Rigler, Steve" <SRigler MarathonOil com>]

Corrupt utmp maybe?

I'm not sure what the prescribed method of fixing utmp is.

If this is just a one time deal you can try this:

cd /var/run
cp utmp utmp_orig
cp /dev/null utmp

You should be able to delete your user at this point.  Then do:

mv utmp_orig utmp

Your user will probably still show up in "w" (or at least his uid), but
he really will be gone from the system.

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:reubendb innovativethought com]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:00 AM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Re: log-out a user - How To


OK, this is getting weirder. 

Earlier, I did try to kill all processes run by that user manually using
ps -uax | grep username

and then just 
kill -9 pid

Now, 'w' and 'ps -uax' does not show the user at all, but 'who' shows that the 
user is currently log in.

'userdel' still fails with messagge: user username is currently log in

/dev/pts/12 does not exist.

Any help? Thanks.

RDB


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:reubendb innovativethought com]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:21 AM
> To: redhat-list redhat com
> Subject: log-out a user - How To
>
>
>
> Hi,
> I have an idle user log in from pts/12. I think it's an artifact because
> the user was using vncviewer, and then when I killed the vncserver, the
> login is still there. I want to delete the user (using userdel) from my
> system but I can't because it says the user is login.
>
> How do I log him out from that session? Of course, I have a root access.
>
> Thanks.
> RDB

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