[Techtalk] kicking unwanted users off the network

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:19, Raquel wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:36:34 -0800
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> Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> > hey all, I remember once upon a time there was a simple way to
> > boot users off  the network, as long as you knew their IP address.
> > But I forgot, and my  google-fu is failing me- what ways are there
> > to punt off unwanted users?
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> > Carla Schroder
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> >From Neohapsis Archives:
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> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2001-11/2078.html
>
> You could do something like this:
> 1 `finger` then you could see what tty is using this user.
> 2 `ps auwx |grep <tty>` You can see what shell is using this user.
> 3. `kill -9 <pid>` You kill his process.

That works fine, mwahaahaa. It's not the one I remember, though, which was a 
single command. I think I was a reading a TCP/IP book.  arrggh old memory 
arggh arggh

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