[X2Go-User] Terminating a session of a no longer existent user fails (trying to su forever)

[Holger.Krause at med.uni-duesseldorf.de]

Hi Stefan,

The backend seems to be the sqlite one:

root at lucas:~# grep backend /etc/x2go/x2gosql/sql
backend=sqlite

'Scraping the entry from the database' doesn't sound too appealing to me. I had hoped for a '--force' option to x2goterminate-session or sth. similar. Creating an user account of the same name as the former NIS one locally, seems to be a workaround: The session is gone, no more messages in /var/log/auth.log.

Thank you, anyway!

Holger
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Von: x2go-user [x2go-user-bounces at lists.x2go.org]" im Auftrag von "Stefan Baur [X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de]
Gesendet: Montag, 3. April 2017 16:26
An: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
Betreff: Re: [X2Go-User] Terminating a session of a no longer existent user fails (trying to su forever)

Am 03.04.2017 um 16:07 schrieb Holger.Krause at med.uni-duesseldorf.de:

> I'm failing to terminate a session of a no longer existing NIS user.
>
> Situation
> -------------
> User accounts are imported via NIS by the X2Go server ('lucas'). Home directories are mounted via NFS.
> Recently, an account ('prakti03') was deleted on the NIS server, and the corresponding home directory purged from the file server, while there was still a X2Go session running on the X2Go server.
>
[...]

> Question:
> --------------
> How can I make X2Go 'terminate the session'? ('Session' in quotation marks, as there are no processes with the user's (numerical) UID running anymore.)

Sounds like you will have to scrape the entry from the database.

Are you using the Postgres or the SQLite backend?

(run "grep backend /etc/x2go/x2gosql/sql" as root to find out)

-Stefan

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