[wplug] howto signoff a user

Phil sublime78ska at comcast.net
Tue Nov 11 20:49:41 EST 2003


On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:34:47 -0500, Kuzman Ganchev 
<kuzman at sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:14:19PM -0500, Phil wrote:
>> Is it possible to ssh into a pc, then signoff a user?  If so, will it 
>> signoff nice as if the user logged off from within x?
>
> As root, all[1] things are possible. Having said that some more details
> about the session would be helpful. How nice is nice? What windowing
> environment?
>
> Kuzman
>
> [1] Well, OK -- most.

kde.  Essentially, user 1 signs on and then walks away.  User 2 needs to 
use the computer but can´t without rebooting.  I´d like to be able to sign 
the user off remotely.

I was looking for a job to kill but don´t know which one is the right one, 
or if that´s a bad idea altogether.


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