User session is still present although no process are shown in process status

[WK Wong]

No process are shown in ps -ef command related to a user. But if issue the who/finger command the user is still present. Is this a normal behavior? If so, how can I kill the user session? Thanks in advance.

[AwadheshPandey]

u can kill the user session by
who
fuser -k tty of user
man fuser
for ex: fuser -k /dev/pts/0

Regards,

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

There could be garbage entries in /var/adm/wtmp. See last(1).
See this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1118377

[WK Wong]

Awadhesh,

I taken a look in man fuser and saw -k option is to indicate a file, but who indicates the tty (e.g. pts/ta) so if I use fuser -k pts/ta then it is result in the error
"pts/ta:stat No such file or directory"
"fuser:could not find or access file pts/ta"
Is it something that I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

[Dennis Handly]

>but who indicates the tty (e.g. pts/ta) so if I use fuser -k pts/ta then it is result in the error

You need /dev/pts/ta like Awadhesh had.

[AwadheshPandey]

u should give fuser -k /dev/pts/ta