Logout another macOS user from the console
If you want to logout another macOS user entirely from the console, it’s sufficient to kill the loginwindow
process:
pkill -9 -u <user> loginwindow
Seems that loginwindow
traps SIGTERM
, so we have to use SIGKILL
and any unsaved work may be lost. But who cares, we did it without leaving the terminal, which is much more important!
(As seen on Ask Different)