NAME

       elogind - Login manager

SYNOPSIS

       elogind [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}

DESCRIPTION

       elogind 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

       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].

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       -D, --daemon
           Daemonize elogind by double-forking into background.

       -h, --help
           Show the helpt text and exit.

SIGNALS

       SIGTERM
           Upon receiving this signal elogind exits, cleaning up all sessions and seats.

       SIGQUIT
           Upon receiving this signal elogind exits, cleaning up all sessions and seats.

       SIGINT
           Upon receiving this signal elogind exits, leaving all sessions and seats in place.

       SIGHUP
           Reloads the complete daemon configuration.

SEE ALSO

       The elogind Homepage[4], loginctl(1), logind.conf(5), pam_elogind(8)

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/