How to kill a remote session from physical display

[fermulator]

A typical scenario is remotely connecting to the physical display of a workstation.

(say, connecting to my system at home from a different location)

Rarely, I forgot to disconnect on the client side (oops), and when I return to my physical workstation, I find that I’m unable to “take back control”.

What is the recommended way for a user to take back control at the physical display

Requirements are:

* non-auth’d users must not be able to “take back display” to avoid others from disrupting someone accessing the workstation remotely (use case: office/home, owner of workstation is remotely connected to physical display, and we must prevent user, non-owner, from disconnecting the remote session)

* The owner of the workstation must be able to “take back display” (by password AUTH?), to disconnect a remote session, if at the physical display. (how this is done would ideally be “physical mouse/keyboard input”, prompts for password to disconnect remote;  alternatively or additionally, switch to different PTY, and run a NoMachine command to disconnect remote connections)

[Britgirl]

If you have NoMachine virtual desktop sessions running you can do (via ssh):

sudo /etc/NX/nxserver --history | grep Connected

sudo /etc/NX/nxserver --terminate <session ID>

(We’re currently evaluating simpler nxserver commands).

Otherwise, a simple restart via ssh.

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