[Techtalk] kicking unwanted users off the network

Wim De Smet kromagg at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 13:03:18 UTC 2007


On 1/15/07, Raquel <raquel at thericehouse.net> wrote:
> 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?
>
> >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.

There's also 'slay' which does something like this for you
automatically. It's a separate package in debian, not sure about
elsewhere.

Just in case you feel the need to do that to some of your users. :)

greets,
Wim


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