Ah ha, I searched marc.info earlier, but my key word did not found that
thread.
Now I know how it happened and how to fix it.

Thanks David.


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Diggles <da...@elven.com.au> wrote:

> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104862612011751&w=2
> -------------------
> List:       openbsd-misc
> Subject:    Re: Can't disconnect "ghost" SSH session from days ago
> From:       Mathieu Sauve-Frankel <m.sauve () secureops ! com>
> Date:       2003-03-25 20:59:44
>
> man utmp
>
> This "ghost" user is merely a stale entry in /var/run/utmp
> that has not been removed because your ssh session died uncleanly.
>
> Reboot your server cleanly and the "ghost" utmp entry will disappear.
>
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:00:15PM +0800, Alan Cheng wrote:
> > Got nothing from  "ps aux|fgrep acheng@ttyp4". No SSHD process to kill
> > either.
> >
> > The problem for me is that no process belongs to ttyp4, but "w" still
> > reports an idle session.
> >
> > FYI:
> > $ ps aux|fgrep acheng@ttyp4
> >
> > $ w
> >  9:57PM  up 13 days,  1:31, 3 users, load averages: 0.16, 0.18, 0.23
> > USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > acheng   p0 180.116.63.38     6:00PM  1:50 -ksh
> > acheng   p1 114.227.120.20    8:06PM     0 w
> > acheng   p4 114.227.123.110  27Jul12 9days -
> >
> > $ ps aux | grep ksh
> > acheng   13452  0.0  0.1   548   500 p0  Is     6:00PM    0:00.02 -ksh
> (ksh)
> > root     25705  0.0  0.1   632   528 p0  I+     6:07PM    0:00.07 -ksh
> (ksh)
> > acheng   30721  0.0  0.1   480   488 p1  Ss     8:06PM    0:00.02 -ksh
> (ksh)
> > acheng   28924  0.0  0.0   480     4 p1  R+     9:57PM    0:00.00 -ksh
> (ksh)
> >
> > $ ps aux | grep sshd
> > root     16212  0.0  0.2   656  1208 ??  Is    23Jul12    0:04.01
> > /usr/sbin/sshd
> > root     30292  0.0  0.5  3456  2812 ??  Is     6:00PM    0:00.07 sshd:
> > acheng [priv] (sshd)
> > acheng    9594  0.0  0.7  4724  3612 ??  I      6:00PM    0:02.20 sshd:
> > acheng@ttyp0 (sshd)
> > root     22538  0.0  0.5  3428  2828 ??  Is     8:06PM    0:00.06 sshd:
> > acheng [priv] (sshd)
> > acheng   18141  0.0  0.6  3880  2920 ??  S      8:06PM    0:02.19 sshd:
> > acheng@ttyp1 (sshd)
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > acheng
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:42 AM, David Diggles <da...@elven.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:38:27PM +1000, David Diggles wrote:
> > > > Try this?
> > > >
> > > > ps aux|fgrep acheng@ttyp3
> > >
> > >
> > > ps aux|fgrep acheng@ttyp4
> > >
> > > do you get the sshd process id you can kill?
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:56:00AM +0800, Alan Cheng wrote:
> > > > > Hello all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd like to kill an stale user session, but could not find a way
> to do
> > > > > that. Seems like there is no process attached to that ttyp4 any
> more.
> > > It's
> > > > > an OpenBSD 5.1 on i386, by the way.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any advice appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > some output, more will be provided if necessary.
> > > > >
> > > > > #w
> > > > >  7:44PM  up 12 days, 23:19, 2 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.14,
> 0.18
> > > > > USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > > > > acheng   p0 180.116.63.38     6:00PM     0 w
> > > > > acheng   p4 114.227.123.110  27Jul12 9days -
> > > > >  <-- the one I'd like to kill
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > #ps -t p4
> > > > >   PID TT  STAT       TIME COMMAND
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks.
> > > > > acheng

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