cannot kill user

keith smith klsmith2020 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 1 15:35:17 MST 2011


Thanks that worked just fine!!  (I'm a few weeks behind on getting to this)

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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 5/17/11, Steven Bailey <st3venb at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Steven Bailey <st3venb at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cannot kill user
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 7:51 PM

ps awwwfux
Look for their shell...then kill away.
On May 17, 2011 7:48 PM, "keith smith" <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to remove a user from a CentOS LAMP server.  

> 
> When I run the who command the user is not listed.
> 
> then I run userdel like this and it says the user is logged in.
> 
> [xxxxxx at xxxxxxx ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/userdel xxxxxxx
> userdel: user xxxxxxx is currently logged in

> 
> I tried sudo pkill -u xxxxx which did not work.
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Keith Smith


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