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SYSTEMD-LOGIND.SERVICE(8) systemd-logind.service SYSTEMD-LOGIND.SERVICE(8)

NAME

systemd-logind.service, systemd-logind - Login manager

SYNOPSIS

systemd-logind.service

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind

DESCRIPTION

systemd-logind is a system service that manages user logins. It is responsible for:

•Keeping track of users and sessions, their processes and their idle state

•Providing PolicyKit-based access for users to operations such as system shutdown or sleep

•Implementing a shutdown/sleep inhibition logic for applications

•Handling of power/sleep hardware keys

•Multi-seat management

•Session switch management

•Device access management for users

•Automatic spawning of text logins (gettys) on virtual console activation and user runtime directory management

User sessions are registered in logind via the pam_systemd(8) PAM module.

See logind.conf(5) for information about the configuration of this service.

See Multi-Seat on Linux[1] for an introduction into basic concepts of logind such as users, sessions and seats.

See the logind D-Bus API Documentation[2] for information about the APIs systemd-logind provides.

For more information on the inhibition logic see the Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation[3].

SEE ALSO

systemd(1), systemd-user-sessions.service(8), loginctl(1), logind.conf(5), pam_systemd(8)

NOTES

1.
Multi-Seat on Linux
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat
2.
logind D-Bus API Documentation
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind
3.
Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit
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