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Force logout a user

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Mar 15, 2026184524 views

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I When I logged into the machine as and typed to see which users are logged in, I found somebody else too logged in as root How can I force a root user at pts/3 to logout?

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devuser   pts/0        2011-11-18 09:55 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
root      pts/1        2011-11-18 09:56 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
testuser  pts/2        2011-11-18 14:54 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
root      pts/3        2011-11-18 14:55 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

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You terminate a session by killing its parent process, called the session leader. Find out which process it is with:

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