Re: How to kill SSH sessions?

[David Jackson <david.jay.jackson@wcox.com>]

"Gary E. Miller" wrote:

> Yo Ed!
>
> Well, the BOFH just kills them all:
>
>         killall sshd; sleep 20; sshd
>

Let me make sure I understand, you going to kill every ssh login on a
"production" server?
Just besure to update you resume before you do.

And of course as any Linux person worth there salt could tell you, killall -HUP
sshd would a better,


>
> Or do this to see which PID to kill
>
>         pstree -pul | less
>
> Only newbies use 'ps'...

Newbie and Linux users  with 7 Years experience

David


>
>
> RGDS
> GARY
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Walsh, Ed wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I have one user who's been connected since May of this year. I'd like to
> > kill his SSH session but don't know how to do that. Can't seem to find
> > anything about how to do that. I've tried restarting the sshd service
> > (/sbin/service sshd restart, stop, and start) all don't make a difference.
> > Using RedHat 7.1 with OpenSSH.
>
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