Is someone monitoring my linux box?
 

I have a PC running CentOS 6.4 and I was curious as to how long I was running this thing for. I ran the command uptime on the terminal and I saw how many days it was up for but then it said 2 users were on. I thought this may have been normal because I was logged into a regular account and I also had root access in the terminal. HOWEVER, after I exited a little while after I did it again and it said 3 users were logged in...whats going on is someone viewing my computer or something? I am the only user logged in

Run the top cmd; it'll show various stuff, inc the current processes.
Its likely a cron job or some such, that's creating the other 'users'
Try the 'who' cmd or 'users'.

I would also recommend looking at the "w" and "last" commands, in addition to those suggested by chrism01. If you have multiple terminal windows open, those count as additional user logins, which may explain the behavior that you're seeing.

You are going to have one logged in user showing for your GUI, and then one for each terminal window you have open. That's just for starters.

haertig could be right ;)
anyway i suggest these commands to have more info:

check ps -ef |grep ssh
ps -ef |grep scp

it will show procedd id of any task that is ruing kill it by kill -9 PID

Thanks

Thanks everyone, I will test em out later today!