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systemd-logind.service(8)



NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

   systemd-logind.service

   /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 with 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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