Terminal command to login a user

I'm doing some work on a lab, and it part of the process involves logging out the user. To complete the installation, I need to log back in as the user. ARD let's let send a command to log out a user, but is there a terminal command to login a user? I've tried using login -f username, but that didn't work.

To login as administrator:hello
I use:
osascript <<EOF
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "administrator"
keystroke tab
delay 0.5
keystroke "hello"
delay 0.5
keystroke return
keystroke return
end tell
EOF
You can save it as a task and double-click and drag in the computers and run when you want to do it.

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Trying to make the screen wink at you when you login?
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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?
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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:
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hey,i forgot my login password,so i changed the password by using terminal command(reset password).now i have new user name with new password,
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How did you change your user name?
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Hi, Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
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