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What is a user-friendly way to log off other users?

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What is the Ubuntu equivalent of this interface?

I am looking for a user-friendly method that the owner of a computer can use to log off other users without having to restart.

The case I'm concerned about is of the beginner-level user who needs administrative control over the computer because they are the owner, but probably isn't concerned with most of the tasks we would usually associate with system administration.

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answered 1 Year ago tresein · Accepted Answer

I don't know of any place where this is plumbed through to the GUI.

sudo pkill -u <username>

is really the simple way to do it, followed by

sudo pkill -KILL -u <username>

a bit later if it doesn't all shut down like it should. If the "non-technical" user in question isn't capable of remembering that, a script to prompt for a username and then run those commands would be about five lines of code and could have a link to it placed somewhere convenient.