Linux – How to kick SSH users

This can be useful if a connection get stuck, or you see a suspicious IP of your users.
If you run w or who you will see you current logged on users. You can click on the pictures for a slightly bigger version.

Only 2 users on here, but I need for various reasons to kick the user Ronny from the system now.
We can do that by killing his sshd process. So we run ps aux | grep sshd

We had identified the process for the user. The owner of the process is Ronny, and the process is sshd: ronny@pts
so we know this is the ssh user Ronny we want to kick. Go ahead and kill 25457

And BAM! The user is kicked from your system.

Happy kicking!

ronny

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