Unable to remove user: "user is currently logged in"

Question

When trying to remove the user, it returns "user is currently logged in".
I already killed the user using pkill -KILL -u usernameHere and several other commands, but it does not help.

How can I remove this user?

Running CentOS 6.

Answer 1

SU to the user su - username and run kill -9 -1 as the user.

Exit the shell and try the userdel -r username again.

Or you can check for processes from the user using lsof -u username and kill the relevant PIDs.

Or pkill -u username or pkill -u uid

Answer 2

Or ps aux | grep <username> and kill the processes the user is running.

Answer 3

If the above steps don't help! (Assuming you are using on the runlevel 5)

You could try the following:

1. Change the runlevel to 3 (init 3)
2. log-in with other than deleting account to delete (root/other account)
3. userdel -r username

Answer 4

I try the steps to del the user1

1. su user1

2. kill -9 -1

3. su

4. sudo deluser user1