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For some reason, I have a few open sessions on an SSH server that I don't know about. I assume they're leftovers from when my pipe broke.

$ users
user1 user2 user3 me me me me

Is there a way to log me out across all sessions?

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You could try killing off the individual processes that are still running as you, or just purge the system of everything running as you: pkill -u username

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    This command kind of restarts the remote machine and all the opened programs get closed. We are only interested in closing the multiple connections..
    – Vinod Kumar Chauhan
    Commented Feb 18, 2023 at 19:44
  • What if you are logged as root? This is terrible advice
    – Freedo
    Commented Jun 8 at 22:13
  • If this OP has 3 other users logged in as is mucking around as root killing off processes then I think they deserved to get exactly what this will do.
    – Caleb
    Commented Jun 14 at 11:39
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loginctl terminate-user <Your User Name>

should kill all sessions of your user

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    It worked! All SSH sessions are logged out =)
    – Megidd
    Commented Jul 15, 2021 at 2:11
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# ps -ea | grep username

kill -9 id's
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