Terminal Command to Log Out User

I have Fast User Switching enabled. I would like to log users out that forgot to log out. What are the Terminal commands to log out someone named Alice who is a Standard user in OS X.3.9? I'm getting tired of having to restart to shut down the users account. Will the commands be the same for an Administrators account?
Thanks for your help,
G4 Quicksilver Dual 1 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, Sonnet ATA133 card, Maxtor ATA133 drives Mac OS X (10.3.9) B+W G3 450 MHz, OS 9.2.2, 1 GB RAM

If you're the Admin, then you should be able to use Terminal as root to log someone out like this:
sudo killall -u [username]
This should kill all processes in that user account, and it may log them out also (I can't test this on a single user machine). If it doesn't, you can use:
sudo shutdown now
which will log out everyone and shutdown the system to single-user mode for the root/Admin user.
Hope this helps,
Mulder
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