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Kick out inactive user on Linux

First, use w to check all the login user

 09:19:58 up 5 days,  2:53,  2 users,  load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.00
USER     TTY      FROM             [email protected]   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
root     pts/1    192.168.1.100  07:52   56:32   0.06s  0.06s -bash
root     pts/2    192.168.1.101  09:19    2.00s  0.03s  0.00s w

Confirm that the pts/1 user is unresponsive and kick it out with the following command

pkill -kill -t pts/1

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