Automatic kill of user gust connection, via ssh

1. In former page I suggested a nice way to connect the office machine to home, via ssh. Remote Connecting To Work Computer - main page.


2. The remote connect script, which runs on the office machines, knows how to reconnect. However when IP changes, I need sometime to manually kill the connection, from the machine at home. This in turn triggers the script at work to re-connect.


3. The office machine uses a reduced permission user account for guests. To kill the connection, I need to be either super user or enter the guest user. Since I usually don't remember the gust password, I do it as super user. I use a script to automate the process and avoid stupid mistakes.
   Note: that although the script is run from the super user, it kills only process of a specific user.
   
   #!/bin/bash
   
   #guestA 28530 28511 0 13:34 ? 00:00:00 sshd: guestA@pts/8
   #guestA 28515 28513 0 13:34 ? 00:00:00 sshd: guestA@pts/5
   
   for f in $(ps -aefH | grep "^guestA.*ssh" | sed 's/guestA *\([0-9]*\) *\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'); do
     cmd="kill "$f
     echo $cmd
     $cmd
   done
   
   
   

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