Gracefully logging off another user.

[Rashkae]

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 :)