diff --git a/src/initscripts/system/sshd b/src/initscripts/system/sshd
index e5a9931af..e69904c61 100644
--- a/src/initscripts/system/sshd
+++ b/src/initscripts/system/sshd
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ case "$1" in
      stop)
          boot_mesg "Stopping SSH Server..."
          killproc -p "/var/run/sshd.pid" /usr/sbin/sshd || true
+        killall sshd-session
          ;;

      reload)
