Kill all processes for a given user

Question

Is there a reliable way to kill all the processes of a given user? kill(-1, SIGKILL) as that user will work, unless a rogue process of that user kills the killi

Answer 1

Just (temporarily) killed my Macbook with

killall -u pu -m .

where pu is my userid. Watch the dot at the end of the command.

Also try

pkill -u pu

or

ps -o pid -u pu | xargs kill -1