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-
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-
- Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
-
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--->
-
-<refentry id="loginctl">
-
- <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 <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="req">COMMAND</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">NAME</arg></command>
- </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>--help</option></term>
- <term><option>-h</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short help
- text and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--version</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Prints a short version
- string and exits.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--property=</option></term>
- <term><option>-p</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When showing
- session/user 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>--all</option></term>
- <term><option>-a</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>When showing
- unit/job/manager properties, show all
- properties regardless whether they are
- set or not.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Do not pipe output into a
- pager.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--no-ask-password</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Don't query the user
- for authentication for privileged
- operations.</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>--signal=</option></term>
- <term><option>-s</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
- SIGTERM, SIGINT or SIGSTOP. If omitted
- defaults to
- <option>SIGTERM</option>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-H</option></term>
- <term><option>--host</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Execute operation
- remotely. Specify a hostname, or
- username and hostname separated by @,
- to connect to. This will use SSH to
- talk to the remote login manager
- instance.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-P</option></term>
- <term><option>--privileged</option></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Acquire privileges via
- PolicyKit before executing the
- operation.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>The following commands are understood:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>list-sessions</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>List current sessions.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>session-status [ID...]</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show terse runtime
- status information about one or more
- sessions. 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 [ID...]</command></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 is 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 [ID...]</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Activate one or more
- sessions. This brings one or more
- sessions into the foreground, if
- another session is currently in the
- foreground on the respective
- seat.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>lock-session [ID...]</command></term>
- <term><command>unlock-session [ID...]</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Activates/deactivates
- the screen lock on one or more
- sessions, if the session supports it.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>lock-sessions</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Activate the screen
- lock on all current sessions
- supporting it.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-session [ID...]</command></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 [ID...]</command></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>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>list-users</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>List currently logged
- in users.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>user-status [USER...]</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show terse runtime
- status information about one or more
- logged in users. 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 [USER...]</command></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 is 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 [USER...]</command></term>
- <term><command>disable-linger [USER...]</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Enable/disable user
- lingering for one or more users. If
- enabled for a specific user a user
- manager is spawned for him/her at
- boot, and kept around after
- logouts. This allows users who aren't
- logged in to run long-running
- services.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><command>terminate-user [USER...]</command></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 [USER...]</command></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>
-
- <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 [NAME...]</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Show terse runtime
- status information about one or more
- seats. 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 [NAME...]</command></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 [NAME] [DEVICE...]</command></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, "-" and "_" and must be prefixed
- with "seat". 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 [NAME...]</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Terminates all
- sessions on a seat. This kills all
- processes of all sessions on a seat and
- deallocates all runtime resources
- attached to them.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Exit status</title>
-
- <para>On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
- code otherwise.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Environment</title>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Pager to use when
- <option>--no-pager</option> is not given;
- overrides <varname>$PAGER</varname>. Setting
- this to an empty string or the value
- <literal>cat</literal> is equivalent to passing
- <option>--no-pager</option>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
- <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>