Force other users to logout

I can I force a logout of a managed user when using fast user switching?

Matti Haveri wrote:
Thanks for the tip nerowolfe.
I also miss an easy way to logout other users. My son and daughter sometimes leave Safari, Messenger etc open in their accounts so they unnecessary consume the CPU so that the fans may even turn on although my active account is idling.
Rebooting the system does the trick but it takes time and then I have to login and open my applications.
So I miss the "clean logout of other users with no rebooting" - option.
So does shutdown -r force other users besides me to logout?
The shutdown command I gave will log out all users and restart the computer. It was a "scare" tactic
However,
shutdown -k
with "k" for kick off" will remove all users, including yourself, but will not reboot the machine, so all you have to do is log in again, but I am not sure how because:
The manual says:
Kick everybody off. The -k option does not actually halt the system, but leaves the system multi-user with logins disabled (for all but super-user).
So it may not be a good method after all.
As an administrator you should be able to log into the other accounts and log them off manually. That's probably the best way.

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Don't forget who -uH to find out the PID of the user you want to kill
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in it.
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let's say there are 2 users currently logged in. One of them wants to reboot due to some reason. 2 choices are now available:
a) Log in the other user to logout and switch back to the first one in order to reboot.
b) Provide an admin's name/pw to logout other users automatically.
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I'm asking because the second user usually only has Safari, Mail, iCal open so there are no save dialogues when quitting the apps manually and it would save some time to just log him out automatically instead of switching to his account only to log him out. Of course I don't want any unneccessary force-quits to happen due to the fact that prefs won't get saved this way compared to a normal quit.
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