how to kick off a user

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:02:17 -0800, Vram wrote:


> Why would you want to kill a users processes?
> 
> I am at a loss what the problem is??

1) You realize the user1 is not the friend you know of as user1 and want
to stop him from doing any more damage.  Disabling logins works great, but
you need to kill all his running jobs.  

2) Your friend gooduser has recently written a program that becomes a fork
bomb as soon as it notices Mohammad's turban in your image processing
file.  You need to stop the onslaught of processes, but now your machine
is slow to respond and takes a long time to process any command.  Slay
will allow you to kill them all at once with one command.  

4) Somebody else has found the root password (or some other
weakness opening the system.   How do you know?  You have no memory of
giving gwbush an account.  Slay him and then keep him out.   


- -- 
Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com> 
http://kt.squeakydolphin.com (not much there yet)
Jabber IM: kpturvey at jabber.org
Phone: (314) 255-2199
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFD6YxXi2ZgbrTULjoRAsDyAJ9Jj/sKVmy5Am7rkNZlAKd1W0q1EACgudrd
LGYIZDsGI9OByZ+c85D68mM=
=n4lX
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----