Ubuntu – Killing a running process in an Ubuntu machine remotely from a windows machine which is in LAN

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Is it possible to kill a process running in an Ubuntu machine from a Windows(XP) machine remotely connected via LAN ?

I can kill the process in a windows machine from a remote windows machine (in LAN) by the following command,

taskkill /S system /U username /P password /IM process.exe

Is there any thing like that to kill the process running in the Linux machine ?

Best Answer

Install openssh-server on Ubuntu and PuTTY on Windows. Then you can get a shell on your Ubuntu machine from the Windows one.

Once logged into your Ubuntu machine remotely, you can use kill or pkill or killall as you prefer. I find pkill simplest if you just want to kill based on the process's name. For example: pkill firefox

If, however, you wanted to kill a specific process whose PID (process ID) you know (possibly from looking through the output of ps -ef), you can use kill 1234

You can combine kill signals with these to say how they should be killed. The default is 15, or SIGTERM (term = terminate), which is a polite request to please close now. If a process doesn't respond to that, 9 (SIGKILL) is popular. See man 7 signal for more information about signals. To use this with kill or pkill you'd simply add -9 for example: kill -9 firefox

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