elogind elogind 8 elogind Login manager elogind OPTIONS COMMAND 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_elogind8 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. The following options are understood: -D --daemon Daemonize elogind by double-forking into background. -h --help Show the helpt text and exit. The elogind Homepage, loginctl1, logind.conf5, pam_elogind8