Looking at the output of pstree on my server at a given time while I'm ssh'd to it, I see this:
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├─sshd───sshd───sshd───bash───pstree
and ps aux has:
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root 2296 0.0 0.0 25840 1236 ? Ss 22:42 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 2423 0.0 0.0 36792 2684 ? Ss 22:43 0:00 sshd: jameson [priv]
jameson 2425 0.0 0.0 36932 1740 ? S 22:43 0:00 sshd: jameson@pts/0
I could understand that a privileged sshd daemon launches a process for jameson, but what is the intermediary [priv] one about?