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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-06-22 01:47:43 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-06-22 01:47:43 +0200
commit601913d616b46692ffe5992dc9a372a0c8b75cd2 (patch)
tree629ad53dd13507594f2818de90d2e4685ed74446 /man
parentccb94c88fd4d23684db383231552a3313b051cd8 (diff)
man: prettify logind man page
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-rw-r--r--man/systemd-logind.service.xml45
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-logind.service.xml b/man/systemd-logind.service.xml
index aa1c8a355a..3e6887299d 100644
--- a/man/systemd-logind.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-logind.service.xml
@@ -58,17 +58,40 @@
<para><filename>systemd-logind</filename> is a system
service that manages user logins. It is responsible
- for: keeping track of users and sessions, their
- processes and their idle state; creating control
- groups for user processes; provide 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) and user
- runtime directory management.
- </para>
+ for:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Keeping track of users and sessions, their
+ processes and their idle state</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Creating control groups for
+ user processes</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Providing PolicyKit-based access
+ for users to operations such as system
+ shutdown or sleep</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Implementing a shutdown/sleep
+ inhibition logic for
+ applications</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Handling of power/sleep
+ hardware keys</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Multi-seat
+ management</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Session
+ switch management</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Device access management for
+ users</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>Automatic spawning of text
+ logins (gettys) on virtual console activation
+ and user runtime directory
+ management</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
<para>User sessions are registered in logind via the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pam_systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>