Killing Users/ Ending sessions

To kill a user

w
1. This will list all logged in users
2. It will look like the image below
4. We want to pay attention to three columns on the screen above. The user column, Tty and What.
  1. User - who is logged in
  2. Tty - Their unique identifying number (This is what we will use to end their session)
  3. What - This is the program the user is logged into. Specific programs will block certain programs the computer room runs. (See other documentation on who/what will block programs the computer room runs)
5. Look in the What column to identify who is blocking your program.
6. Then type the following command
  1. ps -t ttyp#
    1. Where the # is above, you will want to type the corresponding value to the user you want to kill. So lets say we want to wbowdrie above. We would want to type
    2. ps -t ttyp4
8. after we hit enter, the following screen will appear. We will start the next command with
  1. kill -9 ...
  2. instead of the ... we will type the values that are to the left of the SH values.
  3. so in the same order as above, the command would go as follows
  4. kill -9 26394 26412 26413
9. Once you hit enter, this will end their TinyTerm session.

I hope you don't stay blocked for long.