Linux – How to kill user processes from the same user

linuxusersvnc

I opened a VNC server and my VNC session is suddenly dead. I have lot of xterms open.
When I ssh to the machine. and type 

users

I see a bunch of users – my user accounts, like:

userA UserA UserA UserA UserA UserA UserA

I know I can use

pkill -u usersname

Since I can only log in as userA, every time I run pkill-u UserA, it will just kill my current session. but other userAs are still there

What can I do?

Best Answer

A useful tools is slay: sudo slay username If you don't run slay as root, you will end up killing off all of your processes however, rather than the specified user.

See also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18043/how-do-i-kill-all-a-users-processes-using-their-uid

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