Way to log out a FSU account in shell?

I'm looking for a way to log out a background user (Fast Switched User - FSU) who forgot to log out - from the terminal.
I know this is trivial in the *nix world, just killing a process probably; I just can't find the command to do it in Mac's flavor (I'm a casual *nix shell user)
BTW, I don't want the Prefs->Security->General "logout after inactivity" setting.... that logs out everybody (including me) and I can't have my account logged out (due to running processes).
these are the closest I have gotten so far but both have problems:
$osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to log out' <-- but this would log ME out.....
OR
kill -9 `ps -u <username> | grep -v PID | awk '{ printf ("%s ", $1); }'` <---- this has a problem with the argument <username> and I don't know how to fix it to test it.
Ideas on this are appreciated!
Thank you,
Jason

Thanks Linc -
but when I try this, it says "no matching processes were found". I then tried
> ps -U /username/ (substituting real username of course)
and I don't see a logonwindow....
Any suggestions?

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