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Kill tty/pts sessions in Linux
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linux-kill-pts.md

Kill user tty/pts sessions in Linux

Commands

  • w: show who is logged on and what they are doing
  • who: show who is logged on
  • tty: show current users pseudo terminal
  • ps -ft pts/1: get process id for the pseudo terminal
  • pkill: signal process based on name and other attributes
  1. Check active users logged into the server with: w
 16:53:37 up 23:46,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
ubuntu   pts/1    24.69.132.96     16:45    0.00s  0.04s  0.00s w
ubuntu   pts/2    24.69.132.96:S.0 16:35   16.00s  0.02s  0.02s /bin/bash
  1. Get the PID (Process ID) of a connected terminal (tty) with: ps -ft pts/1
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
ubuntu   28580 28102  0 16:45 pts/1    00:00:00 -bash
ubuntu   29081 28580  0 16:55 pts/1    00:00:00 ps -ft pts/1

  1. Kill the process: kill 28580

  2. Alternatively use pkill -t pts/1

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