[Techtalk] kicking unwanted users off the network

Raquel raquel at thericehouse.net
Mon Jan 15 02:19:32 UTC 2007


On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:36:34 -0800
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
> 
> 

>From Neohapsis Archives: 
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. 

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Raquel
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