morganpugh84 Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 Hi, Can someone tell me how to kill a users ssh connection to my server? I am running RedHat 9 and just want to kill there connection and any processes running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rionach Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 not sure how to do it for a single user, but "ps -ax | grep sshd" will give you the PID of sshd, then "kill -1 <pid>" should disconnect pretty much everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted April 24, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2003 Killing sshd would shut down the daemon, if you only want to kill the ssh connections, do ps -aux | grep ssh to see the pid listings and use kill -9 <pid> to kill the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rionach Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 kill -1 restarts things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganpugh84 Posted April 24, 2003 Author Share Posted April 24, 2003 Hi, Yes I have been using kill however listing the processes for sshd will list ALL processes of sshd, sometimes I want to kill just 1 user and killing sshd will kill everyone which I dont want. If I want to kill every I just restart sshd with 'service sshd restart' The only way using kill to kill sshd would be handy is if I could find out which user was using which instance of sshd so I could kill just that 1 instance of sshd. is there any way to find out what user is using what PID for sshd? using 'w' will only display the programs a user is currently running so that doesnt work. Anyone got any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted April 24, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2003 Well, maybe you can ID them by the time that they access and how they have been using ssh :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted April 24, 2003 MVC Share Posted April 24, 2003 can't you just ps -u username (do you know their username?) this will give you the pid of their connection [bud@<hidden> bud]$ ps -u bud PID TTY TIME CMD 20444 ? 00:00:00 sshd 20445 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 20478 pts/0 00:00:00 ps [bud@<hidden> bud]$ And then kill that PID ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted April 24, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2003 can't you just ps -u username (do you know their username?) this will give you the pid of their connection[bud@<hidden> bud]$ ps -u bud PID TTY TIME CMD 20444 ? 00:00:00 sshd 20445 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 20478 pts/0 00:00:00 ps [bud@<hidden> bud]$ And then kill that PID ;) Never thought of that until now :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rionach Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 me neither Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganpugh84 Posted April 24, 2003 Author Share Posted April 24, 2003 can't you just ps -u username (do you know their username?) this will give you the pid of their connection[bud@<hidden> bud]$ ps -u bud PID TTY TIME CMD 20444 ? 00:00:00 sshd 20445 pts/0 00:00:00 bash 20478 pts/0 00:00:00 ps [bud@<hidden> bud]$ And then kill that PID ;) BudMan you are TheMan! Cheers so much, it works a treat :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daem0hn Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 if you kill -1 <pid> the user (using their pid) would it log them out and log them back in??? what do the other -... do??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganpugh84 Posted April 25, 2003 Author Share Posted April 25, 2003 Hi Daem0hn, If you use ps -u username to find the pid of that users sshd process you can then kill the process and it will kill there connection. They wont auto log back in however they can manually log back if they wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daem0hn Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 yeh, i figured as much, but if you attatch the -1 flag to the kill command, it restarts what ever it is, in this scenario, and you were killing their connection, what would be restarted - if anything ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterHammer Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Whey you kill -1, you are killing and restarting a process on your server (In this case the SSH Daemon (sshd) or ssh session process). Since the SSH session is actually a connection initiated by the SSH client, you have really no way of affecting what happens on that end, and that includes an auto restart of the session. As far as the client is concerned, when your process stops, it losses the connection and the remote user will see something like "Remote Server termintated connection" OR "Remote Connection lost". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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