How do I terminate a user session using loginctl on redhat?

blackrhino

Also see:
systemd-logind.service(8), systemd-logind(8) - Login manager
What is the purpose of the systemd-logind daemon?

This kills all processes for a user session and deallocates the resources.

First list the sessions and obtain the session ID.

$ loginctl list-sessions
SESSION  UID USER     SEAT  TTY
      2 1000 training seat0 tty2
      5 1000 training
     c1   42 gdm      seat0 tty1

3 sessions listed.

       terminate-session ID...
           Terminates a session. This kills all processes of the session and
           deallocates all resources attached to the session.

Compared to kill-session

       kill-session ID...
           Send a signal to one or more processes of the session. Use
           --kill-who= to select which process to kill. Use --signal= to
           select the signal to send.

Terminate a user session.

$ loginctl terminate-session 5