Logging a User Off

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Sep11.173008.274 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>code of the passwd command and then exit if it's not 0.  BUT, simply
>executing "exit" doesn't abort the login; it aborts /etc/profile!  What
>can I execute to terminate the login of a user who fails to select a
>valid password?

Send a signal to process id zero (i.e. kill 0) which will send the signal
to all processes in that process group.

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