Jaiwant Mulik on Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:26:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] ghost user


Does not work. ps aux does not list any processes attributed to jdoe.
But he still shows up in `who`


On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:12, Toby DiPasquale wrote:
> Jaiwant Mulik wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > On my server `who` tells me that a jdoe is logged in. I just disabled
> > the account, but cannot force the already logged in jdoe out. What is
> > strange is that no jdoe login processes/shells show up in `ps -auxww`
> > and jdoe's shell in /etc/passwd was /bin/false.
> > 
> > After all this `who` still shows the person still logged in. Any idea
> > who to forcibly log this person out ?
> > 
> > bye,
> > 
> 
> % su -
> Password:
> # for i in `ps aux | grep jdoe | awk '{print $2}'`; do kill -9 $i; done
> # ps aux | grep jdoe | wc -l
> 
> The last line should return 0.
-- 
Jaiwant Mulik <jmulik@temple.edu>

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