Killing a user's session

Submitted by james on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 07:22

Yesterday I took Matt the intern to the COLO to show him one of the servers. He had never been to a COLO so we decided to do a fieldtrip.
While we were at the COLO I showed him how to log into the server
We then locked up the server rack and left. This morning I realized that I had never logged out of the server before I locked up the cabinet. I logged into the server by SSH and issued the command

$ who
james    tty1         Oct  6 11:35
james    pts/0        Oct  7 08:15 (-- my reverse DNS information here --)

Looking at the result I know that My current SSH login was the one on pts/0 and the one from yesterday was pts/0. I had never remotely killed a session so I quickly searched Google and found this page
I issued the following command to log out my previous session:
$ skill -KILL -v tty1
tty1     james     5509 bash  

My session from yesterday is now stopped.

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