Logging Out
When you finish your session, you need to log out of the system to ensure that nobody else accesses your files while masquerading as you.
To log out:
logout
That’s it! Just type logout, and the system will clean up everything and break the connection, and the SSH program might very well just vanish completely.
✓ Tip
On some Unix systems, you can type exit or quit instead of logout, or press
on your keyboard.
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