You can follow a few methods to log out of SSH. In the upcoming sections, we’ll look at each of them briefly. The exit Command If you want to log out of a perfectly running SSH session, run the exit command: exit It will log you out of SSH while ensuring that all the tasks hav...
How to exit from an SSH session Symptom A user can access the Dialogic® BorderNet™ 2020 Integrated Media Gateway (BorderNet 2020 IMG) debug using SSH, but there is no key in the menu that will exit the ssh session. Solution The BorderNet 2020 IMG uses the standard ssh escape keys....
The answer lies in the way Linux works. You probably know that Linux is only kernel and you need a shell to interact with the kernel. When you use a terminal or if you log in to an Ubuntu system via SSH, you open a shell session. If you want to logout from your session, you si...
Using logout or exit If you are logged into a Linux system via an SSH session, you can use the logout command to log out of your current session. logoutCopy If you are running as the root user or another user via the sudo su command, you may receive an error when you use the lo...
Issue We need to log out a user remotely over SSH from a script. Is there any way to log a user from a GNOME session over SSH?Environment Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Subscriber exclusive content A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase, tools, and much more. ...
6. Log out of the SSH session by pressing CTRL + D. 7. Re-Open PuTTY and go to SSH >> Auth. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) 8. Select the Putty Private Key (ppk) that we just created. (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) 9. Scroll back to Session, enter the hostname / IP addres...
Logging Out from a Terminal or Remote Session on Ubuntu If you are using a terminal session or remotely connecting using SSH, logging out of Ubuntu requires a different command. 1. To log out when using the terminal (Such as Ubuntu Server) or an SSH connection, you will want to use the...
If you have multiple sessions, you can pick out the frozen one because the listing will show the username and address on the remote machine the SSH sessions are logged in to. Once you've found the PID of your session, you can terminate it with the kill command: ...
When trying to log out or exit the session, you will also see debugging messages as shown. [tecmint@tecmint ~]$ exitlogout debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0 debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype eow@openssh.com reply 0 ...
To test, you can use it like this: TMOUT=300 This will close your terminal session or SSH session after 300 seconds, i.e. 5 minutes. For SSH sessions, you should see a message like this: root@localhost:~# timed out waiting for input: auto-logout Connection to 212.125.89.175 closed....