Gracefully logging off another user.
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Tue Nov 11 21:39:51 UTC 2008
Rashkae wrote:
> Colin Murphy wrote:
>> On my home, family machine, members of the household are quite happy
>> to 'Switch User' and open up a session for themselves - they seem far less
>> happy to log out again at the end of a session. This usually means there are
>> several, three, maybe four, active sessions running on the one machine. If
>> one of these sessions has some processor intensive task running, say they've
>> left a browser on some flash rich page, system response times really plummet.
>>
>> Instruction and education to family members, some times with a larting stick,
>> has not reaped the rewards one might have hoped for. So ...
>>
>> What is the most graceful way, as a super user, to log out another user
>> closing all of their processes and ending their session?
>>
>
> There is no graceful way.
>
Err, right, amend that to "I don't know of any graceful way"....
You'd think I would know better than to state absolutes on a list of
people like Derek who know stuff :)
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