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-
-<refentry id="loginctl" conditional='ENABLE_LOGIND'
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
-
- <refentryinfo>
- <title>loginctl</title>
- <productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </refentryinfo>
-
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>loginctl</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
- </refmeta>
-
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>loginctl</refname>
- <refpurpose>Control the systemd login manager</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsynopsisdiv>
- <cmdsynopsis>
- <command>loginctl</command>
- <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
- <arg choice="req">COMMAND</arg>
- <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">NAME</arg>
- </cmdsynopsis>
- </refsynopsisdiv>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Description</title>
-
- <para><command>loginctl</command> may be used to introspect and
- control the state of the
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- login manager
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Options</title>
-
- <para>The following options are understood:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-ask-password</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Do not query the user for authentication for
- privileged operations.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-p</option></term>
- <term><option>--property=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When showing session/user/seat properties,
- limit display to certain properties as specified as argument.
- If not specified, all set properties are shown. The argument
- should be a property name, such as
- <literal>Sessions</literal>. If specified more than once, all
- properties with the specified names are
- shown.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--value</option></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>When printing properties with <command>show</command>,
- only print the value, and skip the property name and
- <literal>=</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-a</option></term>
- <term><option>--all</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When showing session/user/seat properties,
- show all properties regardless of whether they are set or
- not.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-l</option></term>
- <term><option>--full</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Do not ellipsize process tree entries.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--kill-who=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When used with
- <command>kill-session</command>, choose which processes to
- kill. Must be one of <option>leader</option>, or
- <option>all</option> to select whether to kill only the leader
- process of the session or all processes of the session. If
- omitted, defaults to <option>all</option>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-s</option></term>
- <term><option>--signal=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When used with <command>kill-session</command>
- or <command>kill-user</command>, choose which signal to send
- to selected processes. Must be one of the well known signal
- specifiers, such as <constant>SIGTERM</constant>,
- <constant>SIGINT</constant> or <constant>SIGSTOP</constant>.
- If omitted, defaults to
- <constant>SIGTERM</constant>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-n</option></term>
- <term><option>--lines=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When used with <command>user-status</command>
- and <command>session-status</command>, controls the number of
- journal lines to show, counting from the most recent ones.
- Takes a positive integer argument. Defaults to 10.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-o</option></term>
- <term><option>--output=</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When used with <command>user-status</command>
- and <command>session-status</command>, controls the formatting
- of the journal entries that are shown. For the available
- choices, see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- Defaults to <literal>short</literal>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
- <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
-
- <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
- <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-legend" />
- <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
- <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Commands</title>
-
- <para>The following commands are understood:</para>
-
- <refsect2><title>Session Commands</title><variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>list-sessions</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>List current sessions.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>session-status</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
- one or more sessions, followed by the most recent log data
- from the journal. Takes one or more session identifiers as
- parameters. If no session identifiers are passed, the status of
- the caller's session is shown. This function is intended to
- generate human-readable output. If you are looking for
- computer-parsable output, use <command>show-session</command>
- instead.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more sessions or the
- manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
- manager will be shown. If a session ID is specified,
- properties of the session are shown. By default, empty
- properties are suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show
- those too. To select specific properties to show, use
- <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be
- used whenever computer-parsable output is required. Use
- <command>session-status</command> if you are looking for
- formatted human-readable output.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>activate</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable></optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Activate a session. This brings a session into
- the foreground if another session is currently in the
- foreground on the respective seat. Takes a session identifier
- as argument. If no argument is specified, the session of the
- caller is put into foreground.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>lock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
- <term><command>unlock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Activates/deactivates the screen lock on one
- or more sessions, if the session supports it. Takes one or
- more session identifiers as arguments. If no argument is
- specified, the session of the caller is locked/unlocked.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>lock-sessions</command></term>
- <term><command>unlock-sessions</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Activates/deactivates the screen lock on all
- current sessions supporting it. </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-
- <listitem><para>Terminates a session. This kills all processes
- of the session and deallocates all resources attached to the
- session. </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>kill-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-
- <listitem><para>Send a signal to one or more processes of the
- session. Use <option>--kill-who=</option> to select which
- process to kill. Use <option>--signal=</option> to select the
- signal to send.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist></refsect2>
-
- <refsect2><title>User Commands</title><variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>list-users</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>List currently logged in users.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>user-status</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
- one or more logged in users, followed by the most recent log
- data from the journal. Takes one or more user names or numeric
- user IDs as parameters. If no parameters are passed, the status
- of the caller's user is shown. This function is intended to
- generate human-readable output. If you are looking for
- computer-parsable output, use <command>show-user</command>
- instead. Users may be specified by their usernames or numeric
- user IDs. </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-user</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more users or the
- manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
- manager will be shown. If a user is specified, properties of
- the user are shown. By default, empty properties are
- suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show those too. To
- select specific properties to show, use
- <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be
- used whenever computer-parsable output is required. Use
- <command>user-status</command> if you are looking for
- formatted human-readable output.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>enable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
- <term><command>disable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Enable/disable user lingering for one or more
- users. If enabled for a specific user, a user manager is
- spawned for the user at boot and kept around after logouts.
- This allows users who are not logged in to run long-running
- services. Takes one or more user names or numeric UIDs as
- argument. If no argument is specified, enables/disables
- lingering for the user of the session of the caller.</para>
-
- <para>See also <varname>KillUserProcesses=</varname> setting in
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
-
- <listitem><para>Terminates all sessions of a user. This kills
- all processes of all sessions of the user and deallocates all
- runtime resources attached to the user.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>kill-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
-
- <listitem><para>Send a signal to all processes of a user. Use
- <option>--signal=</option> to select the signal to send.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist></refsect2>
-
- <refsect2><title>Seat Commands</title><variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>list-seats</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>List currently available seats on the local
- system.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>seat-status</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
- one or more seats. Takes one or more seat names as parameters.
- If no seat names are passed the status of the caller's
- session's seat is shown. This function is intended to generate
- human-readable output. If you are looking for
- computer-parsable output, use <command>show-seat</command>
- instead.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>show-seat</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more seats or the
- manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
- manager will be shown. If a seat is specified, properties of
- the seat are shown. By default, empty properties are
- suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show those too. To
- select specific properties to show, use
- <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be
- used whenever computer-parsable output is required. Use
- <command>seat-status</command> if you are looking for
- formatted human-readable output.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>attach</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>DEVICE</replaceable>...</term>
-
- <listitem><para>Persistently attach one or more devices to a
- seat. The devices should be specified via device paths in the
- <filename>/sys</filename> file system. To create a new seat,
- attach at least one graphics card to a previously unused seat
- name. Seat names may consist only of a–z, A–Z, 0–9,
- <literal>-</literal> and <literal>_</literal> and must be
- prefixed with <literal>seat</literal>. To drop assignment of a
- device to a specific seat, just reassign it to a different
- seat, or use <command>flush-devices</command>.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>flush-devices</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Removes all device assignments previously
- created with <command>attach</command>. After this call, only
- automatically generated seats will remain, and all seat
- hardware is assigned to them.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
-
- <listitem><para>Terminates all sessions on a seat. This kills
- all processes of all sessions on the seat and deallocates all
- runtime resources attached to them.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist></refsect2>
-
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Exit status</title>
-
- <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code
- otherwise.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Examples</title>
-
- <example>
- <title>Querying user status</title>
-
- <programlisting>$ loginctl user-status
-fatima (1005)
- Since: Sat 2016-04-09 14:23:31 EDT; 54min ago
- State: active
- Sessions: 5 *3
- Unit: user-1005.slice
- ├─user@1005.service
- ...
- ├─session-3.scope
- ...
- └─session-5.scope
- ├─3473 login -- fatima
- └─3515 -zsh
-
-Apr 09 14:40:30 laptop login[2325]: pam_unix(login:session):
- session opened for user fatima by LOGIN(uid=0)
-Apr 09 14:40:30 laptop login[2325]: LOGIN ON tty3 BY fatima
-</programlisting>
-
- <para>There are two sessions, 3 and 5. Session 3 is a graphical session,
- marked with a star. The tree of processing including the two corresponding
- scope units and the user manager unit are shown.</para>
- </example>
- </refsect1>
-
- <xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
-</refentry>