ELOGIND(8)

💖 NAME 💖

hiii bestie!! welcome to the ELOGIND(8) manual page — this is all about elogind, the login manager that's literally the main character of your session tea 🫖👑.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

elogind [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so elogind is a system service that manages user logins. the way that it's responsible for all this iconic stuff:

• 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 🔌
• removing of all System V and POSIX IPC objects belonging to the user after the last of the user's sessions terminated. see RemoveIPC= in logind.conf(5) about how to configure this behavior. no cap, that cleanup is real 🧹

User sessions are registered in elogind via the pam_elogind(8) PAM module. 🫶

See logind.conf(5) for information about the configuration of this service. 📝

See Multi-Seat on Linux[1] for an introduction into basic concepts of logind such as users, sessions and seats. 🪑✨

See the logind D-Bus API Documentation[2] for information about the APIs logind provides. 🔌

For more information on the inhibition logic see the Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation[3]. 🔒

🚨 SIGNALS 🚨

• SIGTERM — upon receiving this signal elogind exits, cleaning up all sessions and seats. bye bestie, everything gets tidied 🧹
• SIGQUIT — upon receiving this signal elogind exits, cleaning up all sessions and seats. same energy, still clean 🧼
• SIGINT — upon receiving this signal elogind exits, leaving all sessions and seats in place. it's giving “i'm out but i'm not touching your stuff” 💀
• SIGHUP — reloads the complete daemon configuration. this is mostly equivalent to loginctl reload. like a lil refresh button 🔄

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -D, --daemon — daemonize elogind by double-forking into background. it's giving background character energy, but make it official 🫡
• -h, --help — show the help text and exit. classic bestie move, get the tea and dip 💅

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

elogind 252

kernel command-line arguments elogind.unified_cgroup_hierarchy and elogind.legacy_elogind_cgroup_controller were deprecated. please switch to the unified cgroup hierarchy. ⚠️ no cap, they're deprecated so don't cling to them.

Added in version 252. 🎀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

The elogind Homepage[4], loginctl(1), logind.conf(5), pam_elogind(8) — go read those too bestie, the lore is deep 📚✨

🗒️ NOTES 🗒️

1. Multi-Seat on Linux — http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat
2. logind D-Bus API Documentation — http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind
3. Inhibitor Lock Developer Documentation — http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit
4. elogind Homepage — https://github.com/elogind/elogind/

💖 and that's the ELOGIND(8) tea, bestie — this page is brought to you by elogind 255.24, mwah 💅✨