diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index de93fd18..4762868b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ byobu (5.8) unreleased; urgency=low
   * usr/share/byobu/profiles/tmux:
     - drop the brackets around the open windows, saves ~4 horizontal
       characters;  trying to get default tmux to fit in 80x25
+  * usr/lib/byobu/users:
+    - do a better job counting ssh users
 
  -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:12:49 -0600
 
diff --git a/usr/lib/byobu/users b/usr/lib/byobu/users
index 79952412..c9083208 100755
--- a/usr/lib/byobu/users
+++ b/usr/lib/byobu/users
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ __users() {
 	else
 		# Note: we'd like to use pgrep -c, however, this isn't available in
 		# busybox and some distro's pgrep (and it doesn't exit non-zero).
-		count=$(pgrep -f "sshd:.*@" | wc -l) || return
+		count=$(pgrep -f "^sshd:.*@" | wc -l) || return
 	fi
 	if [ $count -gt 0 ]; then
 		color b w r; printf "%d" "$count"; color -; color w r; printf "#"; color --