Anyway to force a user to logout?

Hi,
I wonder whether there is a way for root to force a user out of the system, if the user is currently in it.
I get two reasons to do it:
1) sometime after a remote telnet PC crash, I find the user is reported to be still in the host from "who". I guess this may results from the telnet's unexpected crash. so I want to get ride of their pending sessions in the host.
2) if I suspect a certain user, and find he is in the system from a telnet, I want to force him out of the system immediately (reset his passwd will not affect the current connections).
Any idea of it?
Thanks a lot.

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Hi,
I wonder whether there is a way for root to force
rce a user out of the system, if the user is currently
in it.
I get two reasons to do it:
1) sometime after a remote telnet PC crash, I find
ind the user is reported to be still in the host from
"who". I guess this may results from the telnet's
unexpected crash. so I want to get ride of their
pending sessions in the host.
2) if I suspect a certain user, and find he is in
in the system from a telnet, I want to force him out
of the system immediately (reset his passwd will not
affect the current connections).
Any idea of it?
Thanks a lot.

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