How to kick off user

[lin.chen]

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

[Trng]

Hi Lin,

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


rgds
suresh

[Dennis Handly]

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

[Prasanth Vattoly]

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

[Dennis Handly]

>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 ))