(In reply to Roland Bernet from comment #23) > ps aux | grep sd-pam gives > > emeier 1195 0.0 0.1 75572 2132 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) > root 1520 0.0 0.0 75572 1928 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) > pcapelo 8336 0.0 0.1 75600 2236 ? S 10:07 0:00 (sd-pam) > mariusw 8493 0.0 0.1 75572 2136 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) > bernet 8818 0.0 0.1 75588 2228 ? S 11:01 0:00 (sd-pam) > lmayer 14697 0.0 0.1 75572 2056 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) > torriell 15992 0.0 0.1 75596 2160 ? S Jun10 0:00 (sd-pam) > psaha 24778 0.0 0.1 75572 2076 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) > irshad 25205 0.0 0.1 75572 2092 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) > pires 27092 0.0 0.1 75572 2104 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) > tgoerdt 27975 0.0 0.1 75588 2216 ? S Jun10 0:00 (sd-pam) > novati 31556 0.0 0.1 75572 2124 ? S Jun09 0:00 (sd-pam) If there are no user processes that should persist after user logout, you can set: KillUserProcesses=yes in /etc/systemd/logind.conf But please be aware that this would also kill, for example, a detached screen session at user logout.