> please,
> 
> finger reports
> 
> Login     Name                 Tty      Idle  Login Time   
> Office     Office Phone
> alice     Miss Alice Mc Cool  *:0             Sep  6 17:25
> joe       Joe Mc Cool         *tty1     1:17  Sep  6 20:24
> joe       Joe Mc Cool         *pts/2          Sep  7 13:40 
> (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
> 
> that last entry is me, having forgotten to log off from my 
> office machine while sshing to this box.  (ip address xx'd)
> 
> how do I kill off this user and all his processes ?
> 
> ps -t *pts/2 reports:
> 
> ERROR: TTY could not be found etc
> 
> therefore I don't know what processes to kill.
> 
> BTW, what do the *'s represent ?  According to man finger 
> they represent denial of write access.  But this is 
> definately not the case here.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Joe
> 

who -uH 

Will give all that the system thinks is logged in, plus their PID.


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