how do you kill all proccesses owned by a certain user? Like whats the command (linux)

thanks.

kill NUMBERHERE

Didn't read it correctly the first time, but what GlideTech says is correct

Run a
ps aux | grep USERNAME

Then run a kill on all processes running by that user.

as mentioned do "ps aux | grep USERNAME" which will out put something like this..

neil 30199 0.0 0.2 5484 1596 ? S 03:11 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd


then you want to do kill -9 XXXXX where.. XXXXX is the number right after the username in the above example. Obviously the name of the process you're killing is the one at the very end of the above example.

And - why not delete the abusive user?

Originally posted by DotComster
And - why not delete the abusive user?

who said he/she was abusive?

And a nice swift way to do it if there are a lot of user processes (but be very careful - never do this on the root user):

ps --User username -o pid -h | xargs kill -9

Fast way:

skill -u username

That's a nice one :)