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. This is implemented by allocating a systemd slice unit for each user below user.slice, and a scope unit below it for each concurrent session of a user. Also, a per-user service manager is started as system service instance of user@.service for each user logged in.

    • Generating and managing session IDs. If auditing is available and an audit session ID is set for a session already, the session ID is initialized from it. Otherwise, an independent session counter is used.

    • 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
    https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat

2.  logind D-Bus API Documentation
    https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind

3.  Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation
    https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit