More than that. In Maverick amd64 the option UsePAM yes makes polkitd grow drastically in time of each login. With UsePAM yes: [stanis@dinexi ~] % tail -n 1 /etc/ssh/sshd_config UsePAM yes [stanis@dinexi ~] % ps aux | grep polkitd | grep -v grep root 1698 0.0 0.6 62904 12744 ? S Mar13 0:10 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ps aux | grep polkitd | grep -v grep root 1698 0.0 0.6 64488 14252 ? S Mar13 0:12 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd Changing this option to 'no' and restarting ssh service: [stanis@dinexi ~] % tail -n 1 /etc/ssh/sshd_config UsePAM no [stanis@dinexi ~] % sudo service ssh restart ssh start/running, process 29226 [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ssh -p 422 dinexi -C 'exit' [stanis@dinexi ~] % ps aux | grep polkitd | grep -v grep root 1698 0.0 0.6 64488 14252 ? S Mar13 0:12 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
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