systemd Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net logind.service 8 logind.service logind Login manager logind.service /usr/lib/systemd/logind logind 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 Automatic spawning of text logins (gettys) on virtual console activation and user runtime directory management User sessions are registered in logind via the pam_systemd8 PAM module. See logind.conf5 for information about the configuration of this service. See Multi-Seat on Linux for an introduction into basic concepts of logind such as users, sessions and seats. See the logind D-Bus API Documentation for information about the APIs logind provides. For more information on the inhibition logic see the Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation. systemd1, systemd-user-sessions.service8, loginctl1, logind.conf5, pam_systemd8