How to kill a users SSH Connection


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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?

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 said:
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:

  BudMan said:
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:

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".

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