Linux – Kill all processes for a user
Posted by Josh on Tue 27 Feb 2007Categories: Linux - [2] Comments
Click to play tutorial:

To kill all processes for a single user, use the following command:
pkill -u username
Click to play tutorial:

To kill all processes for a single user, use the following command:
pkill -u username
July 5th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
[...] Here is a flash demo of this command, I think you can find it useful. [...]
October 14th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
This command works really good for what it’s advertised to do.. um, thats all I have.
Oh, it wont kill YOUR local term if you execute the command as the username you’re pkilling. So that’s something good if you’re trying to kill a rouge fork bomb or script but not your local session.