systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net logind.conf 5 logind.conf logind.conf.d Login manager configuration files /etc/systemd/logind.conf /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf /run/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf /usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/*.conf These files configure various parameters of the systemd login manager, systemd-logind.service8. All options are configured in the [Login] section: NAutoVTs= Takes a positive integer. Configures how many virtual terminals (VTs) to allocate by default that, when switched to and are previously unused, autovt services are automatically spawned on. These services are instantiated from the template unit autovt@.service for the respective VT TTY name, for example, autovt@tty4.service. By default, autovt@.service is linked to getty@.service. In other words, login prompts are started dynamically as the user switches to unused virtual terminals. Hence, this parameter controls how many login gettys are available on the VTs. If a VT is already used by some other subsystem (for example, a graphical login), this kind of activation will not be attempted. Note that the VT configured in ReserveVT= is always subject to this kind of activation, even if it is not one of the VTs configured with the NAutoVTs= directive. Defaults to 6. When set to 0, automatic spawning of autovt services is disabled. ReserveVT= Takes a positive integer. Identifies one virtual terminal that shall unconditionally be reserved for autovt@.service activation (see above). The VT selected with this option will be marked busy unconditionally, so that no other subsystem will allocate it. This functionality is useful to ensure that, regardless of how many VTs are allocated by other subsystems, one login getty is always available. Defaults to 6 (in other words, there will always be a getty available on Alt-F6.). When set to 0, VT reservation is disabled. KillUserProcesses= Takes a boolean argument. Configures whether the processes of a user should be killed when the user logs out. If true, the scope unit corresponding to the session and all processes inside that scope will be terminated. If false, the scope is "abandoned", see systemd.scope5, and processes are not killed. Defaults to yes, but see the options KillOnlyUsers= and KillExcludeUsers= below. In addition to session processes, user process may run under the user manager unit user@.service. Depending on the linger settings, this may allow users to run processes independent of their login sessions. See the description of enable-linger in loginctl1. Note that setting KillUserProcesses=yes will break tools like screen1 and tmux1, unless they are moved out of the session scope. See example in systemd-run1. KillOnlyUsers= KillExcludeUsers= These settings take space-separated lists of usernames that override the KillUserProcesses= setting. A user name may be added to KillExcludeUsers= to exclude the processes in the session scopes of that user from being killed even if KillUserProcesses=yes is set. If KillExcludeUsers= is not set, the root user is excluded by default. KillExcludeUsers= may be set to an empty value to override this default. If a user is not excluded, KillOnlyUsers= is checked next. If this setting is specified, only the session scopes of those users will be killed. Otherwise, users are subject to the KillUserProcesses=yes setting. IdleAction= Configures the action to take when the system is idle. Takes one of ignore, poweroff, reboot, halt, kexec, suspend, hibernate, hybrid-sleep, and lock. Defaults to ignore. Note that this requires that user sessions correctly report the idle status to the system. The system will execute the action after all sessions report that they are idle, no idle inhibitor lock is active, and subsequently, the time configured with IdleActionSec= (see below) has expired. IdleActionSec= Configures the delay after which the action configured in IdleAction= (see above) is taken after the system is idle. InhibitDelayMaxSec= Specifies the maximum time a system shutdown or sleep request is delayed due to an inhibitor lock of type delay being active before the inhibitor is ignored and the operation executes anyway. Defaults to 5. HandlePowerKey= HandleSuspendKey= HandleHibernateKey= HandleLidSwitch= HandleLidSwitchDocked= Controls whether logind shall handle the system power and sleep keys and the lid switch to trigger actions such as system power-off or suspend. Can be one of ignore, poweroff, reboot, halt, kexec, suspend, hibernate, hybrid-sleep, and lock. If ignore, logind will never handle these keys. If lock, all running sessions will be screen-locked; otherwise, the specified action will be taken in the respective event. Only input devices with the power-switch udev tag will be watched for key/lid switch events. HandlePowerKey= defaults to poweroff. HandleSuspendKey= and HandleLidSwitch= default to suspend. HandleLidSwitchDocked= defaults to ignore. HandleHibernateKey= defaults to hibernate. If the system is inserted in a docking station, or if more than one display is connected, the action specified by HandleLidSwitchDocked= occurs; otherwise the HandleLidSwitch= action occurs. PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited= SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited= HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited= LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited= Controls whether actions triggered by the power and sleep keys and the lid switch are subject to inhibitor locks. These settings take boolean arguments. If no, the inhibitor locks taken by applications in order to block the requested operation are respected. If yes, the requested operation is executed in any case. PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=, SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited= and HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited= default to no. LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited= defaults to yes. This means that the lid switch does not respect suspend blockers by default, but the power and sleep keys do. HoldoffTimeoutSec= Specifies the timeout after system startup or system resume in which systemd will hold off on reacting to lid events. This is required for the system to properly detect any hotplugged devices so systemd can ignore lid events if external monitors, or docks, are connected. If set to 0, systemd will always react immediately, possibly before the kernel fully probed all hotplugged devices. This is safe, as long as you do not care for systemd to account for devices that have been plugged or unplugged while the system was off. Defaults to 30s. RuntimeDirectorySize= Sets the size limit on the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR runtime directory for each user who logs in. Takes a size in bytes, optionally suffixed with the usual K, G, M, and T suffixes, to the base 1024 (IEC). Alternatively, a numerical percentage suffixed by % may be specified, which sets the size limit relative to the amount of physical RAM. Defaults to 10%. Note that this size is a safety limit only. As each runtime directory is a tmpfs file system, it will only consume as much memory as is needed. InhibitorsMax= Controls the maximum number of concurrent inhibitors to permit. Defaults to 8192 (8K). SessionsMax= Controls the maximum number of concurrent user sessions to manage. Defaults to 8192 (8K). Depending on how the pam_systemd.so module is included in the PAM stack configuration, further login sessions will either be refused, or permitted but not tracked by systemd-logind. UserTasksMax= Sets the maximum number of OS tasks each user may run concurrently. This controls the TasksMax= setting of the per-user slice unit, see systemd.resource-control5 for details. If assigned the special value infinity, no tasks limit is applied. Defaults to 33%, which equals 10813 with the kernel's defaults on the host, but might be smaller in OS containers. RemoveIPC= Controls whether System V and POSIX IPC objects belonging to the user shall be removed when the user fully logs out. Takes a boolean argument. If enabled, the user may not consume IPC resources after the last of the user's sessions terminated. This covers System V semaphores, shared memory and message queues, as well as POSIX shared memory and message queues. Note that IPC objects of the root user and other system users are excluded from the effect of this setting. Defaults to yes. systemd1, systemd-logind.service8, loginctl1, systemd-system.conf5