After a kill, who continues finding the user 1

[Albermen]

After a kill, the logged user not disappear from utmp and wtmp. What I must do to solve this problem?

 

[pmcmicha]

I don't know that the user names are supposed to dissappear from these files. How are you doing the kill for the user?

kill ${PID} or kill -15 ${PID}?

If so, this may or may not kill the user out of the system, I have had very little success with killing users out using the above examples. I have always had to use the following:

kill -9 ${PID}

The names stay in utmp and wtmp, but they do not show up in who. I would say that if the name is still showing up in who, then the user is still logged in and you need to force the kill with "-9".

 

[Albermen]

I do kill -9 but who show up the names. To give only kill never worked for me, I always used kill -9.

 

[edfair]

or kill -15.
But this is probably a ghost user, which rebooting will eliminate. Ed Fair
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[pmcmicha]

Okay then, I am not sure what OS Version you are on, but see if these will help:

http://stage.caldera.com/ns-search/...h-set=/3dcfd/aaaa004RPcfd588&NS-doc-offset=2&

http://stage.caldera.com/ns-search/...-set=/3dcfd/aaaa004RPcfd588&NS-doc-offset=21&