elogind [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}
elogind 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
•Removing of all System V and POSIX IPC objects
belonging to the user after the last of the user's sessions terminated. See
RemoveIPC= in
logind.conf(5) about how to configure this
behavior.
User sessions are registered in elogind via the
pam_elogind(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 logind provides.
For more information on the inhibition logic see the Inhibitor
Lock Developer Documentation[3].
SIGTERM
Upon receiving this signal elogind exits, cleaning up all
sessions and seats.
SIGQUIT
Upon receiving this signal elogind exits, cleaning up all
sessions and seats.
SIGINT
Upon receiving this signal elogind exits, leaving all
sessions and seats in place.
SIGHUP
Reloads the complete daemon configuration. This is mostly
equivalent to loginctl reload.
-D, --daemon
Daemonize elogind by double-forking into
background.
-h, --help
Show the help text and exit.
- 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
- 4.
- elogind Homepage
https://github.com/elogind/elogind/