If they're ssh'ing in, why are they running gnome jobs, unless their .bashrc or .login explicitly includes those commands? Some easy options (but may be ugly on the user end): in sshd_config, turn off agent forwarding and X11 forwarding. That will prevent agent from working and X11 from getting a display via ssh proxy. Otherwise, I'd fix their login scripts so the X and agent stuff isn't run if logging in via ssh (check for ssh environment variable, see sshd manpage for details). Finally, you can touch /etc/nologin or remove those visitors from /etc/passwd. Sorry, that last paragraph was a joke. Regards, Dan W. On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:56:28PM +0200, Gerald Teschl wrote: > Hi, > > most of our boxes are used by visitors. For ever visitor logging in > and out I have about 1-2 ssh-agent processes which keep runnding plus > a number of gnome processes (gconf, bonobo, evolution, ...) > > So after a short time every box accumulates a large number of useless > processes. Any suggestions on how to get rid of them/ > > Gerald