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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