On Saturday 18 February 2006 22:40, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Let's say a user logged into a computer and set the screen saver
> password (My son did this against house rules to keep his siblings off
> the computer). This user is no longer available (He is now in bed). I
> don't know his password but I know the root password for the machine (Of
> course!). I want to force the user to logout so the machine can cleanly
> shutdown.
slay is a good command here.
>
> Google provides many answers and I haven't found the clear one yet.
> Logged in as root on another console, how do I force a clean logout on
> the (now sleeping) user?
you can also do (from root): shutdown -r now
that will log everyone off the machine, regardless of state
>
> Alan
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