topic Re: How to kick off user in Operating System - HP-UX

How to kick off user

lin.chen — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:14:00 GMT

I found many user are in idle status by "w"
I want to force these users to leave the system and kill the process they produced.
How can I do?

Thanks and regards!
louis

Re: How to kick off user

Trng — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:55:25 GMT

Hi Lin,

refer this http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1149066

rgds
suresh

Re: How to kick off user

Dennis Handly — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:56:22 GMT

By definition any "process they produced" are not idle, except the login shell.

Re: How to kick off user

Prasanth Vattoly — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:41:59 GMT

You can force user to be logged out after 2 hours by setting TMOUT in /etc/profile

TMOUT=432000
readonly TMOUT
export TMOUT

But it may affect the orphan background process, which has been started by this user.

this will work if user shell is ksh or posix shell

regards
Prasanth

Re: How to kick off user

Dennis Handly — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:18:53 GMT

>Prasanth: You can force user to be logged out after 2 hours: TMOUT=432000

This isn't the right way to do it since it is prone to mistakes. You won't have any with this format:
TMOUT=$(( 2 * 60 * 60 ))