Other Alias
systemd-logind.serviceSYNOPSIS
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 in logind via the pam_systemd(8) PAM module.
See logind.conf(5) for information about the configuration of this service.
See m[blue]Multi-Seat on Linuxm[][1] for an introduction into basic concepts of logind such as users, sessions and seats.
See the m[blue]logind D-Bus API Documentationm[][2] for information about the APIs systemd-logind provides.
For more information on the inhibition logic see the m[blue]Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentationm[][3].
NOTES
- 1.
- Multi-Seat on Linux
- 2.
- logind D-Bus API Documentation
- 3.
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Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation