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 <?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
-        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
 
 <!--
   This file is part of systemd.
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
-<refentry id="loginctl" conditional='ENABLE_LOGIND'
-          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
-
-        <refentryinfo>
-                <title>loginctl</title>
-                <productname>systemd</productname>
-
-                <authorgroup>
-                        <author>
-                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
-                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
-                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
-                                <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
-                        </author>
-                </authorgroup>
-        </refentryinfo>
-
-        <refmeta>
-                <refentrytitle>loginctl</refentrytitle>
-                <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
-        </refmeta>
-
-        <refnamediv>
-                <refname>loginctl</refname>
-                <refpurpose>Control the systemd login manager</refpurpose>
-        </refnamediv>
-
-        <refsynopsisdiv>
-                <cmdsynopsis>
-                        <command>loginctl</command>
-                        <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
-                        <arg choice="req">COMMAND</arg>
-                        <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">NAME</arg>
-                </cmdsynopsis>
-        </refsynopsisdiv>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>Description</title>
-
-                <para><command>loginctl</command> may be used to
-                introspect and control the state of the
-                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                login manager <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>Options</title>
-
-                <para>The following options are understood:</para>
-
-                <variablelist>
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-h</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--help</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Prints a short help
-                                text and exits.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--version</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Prints a short version
-                                string and exits.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--no-pager</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Do not pipe output into a
-                                pager.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--no-legend</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem>
-                                        <para>Do not print the legend,
-                                        i.e. the column headers and
-                                        the footer.</para>
-                                </listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--no-ask-password</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Do not query the user
-                                for authentication for privileged
-                                operations.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-H</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--host</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Execute the operation
-                                remotely. Specify a hostname, or
-                                username and hostname separated by <literal>@</literal>,
-                                to connect to. This will use SSH to
-                                talk to the remote login manager
-                                instance.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-M</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--machine=</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Execute the operation on a
-                                local container. Specify a container
-                                name to connect to.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-p</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--property=</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>When showing
-                                session/user/seat properties, limit
-                                display to certain properties as
-                                specified as argument. If not
-                                specified, all set properties are
-                                shown. The argument should be a
-                                property name, such as
-                                <literal>Sessions</literal>. If
-                                specified more than once, all
-                                properties with the specified names
-                                are shown.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-a</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--all</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>When showing
-                                session/user/seat properties, show all
-                                properties regardless of whether they are
-                                set or not.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-l</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--full</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Do not ellipsize
-                                process tree entries.</para>
-                                </listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--kill-who=</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>When used with
-                                <command>kill-session</command>,
-                                choose which processes to kill. Must
-                                be one of <option>leader</option>, or
-                                <option>all</option> to select whether
-                                to kill only the leader process of the
-                                session or all processes of the
-                                session. If omitted, defaults to
-                                <option>all</option>.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>-s</option></term>
-                                <term><option>--signal=</option></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>When used with
-                                <command>kill-session</command> or
-                                <command>kill-user</command>, choose
-                                which signal to send to selected
-                                processes. Must be one of the well
-                                known signal specifiers, such as
-                                <constant>SIGTERM</constant>,
-                                <constant>SIGINT</constant> or
-                                <constant>SIGSTOP</constant>. If
-                                omitted, defaults to
-                                <constant>SIGTERM</constant>.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                </variablelist>
-
-                <para>The following commands are understood:</para>
-
-                <variablelist>
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>list-sessions</command></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>List current sessions.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>session-status</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Show terse runtime
-                                status information about one or more
-                                sessions. This function is intended to
-                                generate human-readable output. If you
-                                are looking for computer-parsable
-                                output, use
-                                <command>show-session</command>
-                                instead.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>show-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Show properties of one
-                                or more sessions or the manager
-                                itself. If no argument is specified,
-                                properties of the manager will be
-                                shown. If a session ID is specified,
-                                properties of the session are shown. By
-                                default, empty properties are
-                                suppressed. Use <option>--all</option>
-                                to show those too. To select specific
-                                properties to show, use
-                                <option>--property=</option>. This
-                                command is intended to be used
-                                whenever computer-parsable output is
-                                required. Use
-                                <command>session-status</command> if
-                                you are looking for formatted
-                                human-readable
-                                output.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>activate</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Activate one or more
-                                sessions. This brings one or more
-                                sessions into the foreground, if
-                                another session is currently in the
-                                foreground on the respective
-                                seat.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>lock-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-                                <term><command>unlock-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Activates/deactivates
-                                the screen lock on one or more
-                                sessions, if the session supports it.
-                                </para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>lock-sessions</command></term>
-                                <term><command>unlock-sessions</command></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Activates/deactivates
-                                the screen lock on all current
-                                sessions supporting it.
-                                </para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>terminate-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Terminates a session.
-                                This kills all processes of the
-                                session and deallocates all resources
-                                attached to the session.
-                                </para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>kill-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Send a signal to one
-                                or more processes of the session. Use
-                                <option>--kill-who=</option> to select
-                                which process to kill. Use
-                                <option>--signal=</option> to select
-                                the signal to send.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>list-users</command></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>List currently logged
-                                in users.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>user-status</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Show terse runtime
-                                status information about one or more
-                                logged in users. This function is
-                                intended to generate human-readable
-                                output. If you are looking for
-                                computer-parsable output, use
-                                <command>show-user</command> instead.
-                                Users may be specified by their
-                                usernames or numeric user IDs.
-                                </para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>show-user</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Show properties of one
-                                or more users or the manager
-                                itself. If no argument is specified,
-                                properties of the manager will be
-                                shown. If a user is specified,
-                                properties of the user are shown. By
-                                default, empty properties are
-                                suppressed. Use <option>--all</option>
-                                to show those too. To select specific
-                                properties to show, use
-                                <option>--property=</option>. This
-                                command is intended to be used
-                                whenever computer-parsable output is
-                                required. Use
-                                <command>user-status</command> if
-                                you are looking for formatted
-                                human-readable
-                                output.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>enable-linger</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
-                                <term><command>disable-linger</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Enable/disable user
-                                lingering for one or more users. If
-                                enabled for a specific user, a user
-                                manager is spawned for the user at
-                                boot and kept around after
-                                logouts. This allows users who are not
-                                logged in to run long-running
-                                services.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>terminate-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Terminates all
-                                sessions of a user. This kills all
-                                processes of all sessions of the user
-                                and deallocates all runtime resources
-                                attached to the user.
-                                </para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>kill-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Send a signal to all
-                                processes of a user. Use
-                                <option>--signal=</option> to select
-                                the signal to send.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>list-seats</command></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>List currently
-                                available seats on the local
-                                system.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>seat-status</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Show terse runtime
-                                status information about one or more
-                                seats. This function is
-                                intended to generate human-readable
-                                output. If you are looking for
-                                computer-parsable output, use
-                                <command>show-seat</command>
-                                instead.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>show-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Show properties of one
-                                or more seats or the manager
-                                itself. If no argument is specified,
-                                properties of the manager will be
-                                shown. If a seat is specified,
-                                properties of the seat are shown. By
-                                default, empty properties are
-                                suppressed. Use <option>--all</option>
-                                to show those too. To select specific
-                                properties to show, use
-                                <option>--property=</option>. This
-                                command is intended to be used
-                                whenever computer-parsable output is
-                                required. Use
-                                <command>seat-status</command> if you
-                                are looking for formatted
-                                human-readable
-                                output.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>attach</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>DEVICE</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Persistently attach
-                                one or more devices to a seat. The
-                                devices should be specified via device
-                                paths in the <filename>/sys</filename>
-                                file system. To create a new seat,
-                                attach at least one graphics card to a
-                                previously unused seat name. Seat
-                                names may consist only of a-z, A-Z,
-                                0-9, <literal>-</literal> and
-                                <literal>_</literal> and must be
-                                prefixed with <literal>seat</literal>.
-                                To drop assignment of a device to a
-                                specific seat, just reassign it to a
-                                different seat, or use
-                                <command>flush-devices</command>.
-                                </para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>flush-devices</command></term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Removes all device
-                                assignments previously created with
-                                <command>attach</command>. After this
-                                call, only automatically generated
-                                seats will remain, and all seat
-                                hardware is assigned to
-                                them.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><command>terminate-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
-
-                                <listitem><para>Terminates all
-                                sessions on a seat. This kills all
-                                processes of all sessions on the seat
-                                and deallocates all runtime resources
-                                attached to them.</para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-                </variablelist>
-
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>Exit status</title>
-
-                <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
-                code otherwise.</para>
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>See Also</title>
-                <para>
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                </para>
-        </refsect1>
+<refentry id="loginctl" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+
+  <refentryinfo>
+    <title>loginctl</title>
+    <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+    <authorgroup>
+      <author>
+        <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+        <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+        <surname>Poettering</surname>
+        <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+      </author>
+    </authorgroup>
+  </refentryinfo>
+
+  <refmeta>
+    <refentrytitle>loginctl</refentrytitle>
+    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  </refmeta>
+
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>loginctl</refname>
+    <refpurpose>Control the systemd login manager</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>loginctl</command>
+      <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
+      <arg choice="req">COMMAND</arg>
+      <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">NAME</arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para><command>loginctl</command> may be used to introspect and
+    control the state of the
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+    login manager
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Options</title>
+
+    <para>The following options are understood:</para>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--no-ask-password</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Do not query the user for authentication for
+        privileged operations.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>-p</option></term>
+        <term><option>--property=</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>When showing session/user/seat properties,
+        limit display to certain properties as specified as argument.
+        If not specified, all set properties are shown. The argument
+        should be a property name, such as
+        <literal>Sessions</literal>. If specified more than once, all
+        properties with the specified names are
+        shown.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>-a</option></term>
+        <term><option>--all</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>When showing session/user/seat properties,
+        show all properties regardless of whether they are set or
+        not.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>-l</option></term>
+        <term><option>--full</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Do not ellipsize process tree entries.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--kill-who=</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>When used with
+        <command>kill-session</command>, choose which processes to
+        kill. Must be one of <option>leader</option>, or
+        <option>all</option> to select whether to kill only the leader
+        process of the session or all processes of the session. If
+        omitted, defaults to <option>all</option>.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>-s</option></term>
+        <term><option>--signal=</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>When used with <command>kill-session</command>
+        or <command>kill-user</command>, choose which signal to send
+        to selected processes. Must be one of the well known signal
+        specifiers, such as <constant>SIGTERM</constant>,
+        <constant>SIGINT</constant> or <constant>SIGSTOP</constant>.
+        If omitted, defaults to
+        <constant>SIGTERM</constant>.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>-n</option></term>
+        <term><option>--lines=</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>When used with <command>user-status</command>
+        and <command>session-status</command>, controls the number of
+        journal lines to show, counting from the most recent ones.
+        Takes a positive integer argument. Defaults to 10.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>-o</option></term>
+        <term><option>--output=</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>When used with <command>user-status</command>
+        and <command>session-status</command>, controls the formatting
+        of the journal entries that are shown. For the available
+        choices, see
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+        Defaults to <literal>short</literal>.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
+      <xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
+
+      <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
+      <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-legend" />
+      <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+      <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+    </variablelist>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Commands</title>
+
+    <para>The following commands are understood:</para>
+
+    <refsect2><title>Session Commands</title><variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>list-sessions</command></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>List current sessions.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>session-status</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
+        one or more sessions, followed by the most recent log data
+        from the journal. Takes one or more session identifiers as
+        parameters. If no session identifiers are passed the status of
+        the caller's session is shown. This function is intended to
+        generate human-readable output. If you are looking for
+        computer-parsable output, use <command>show-session</command>
+        instead.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>show-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more sessions or the
+        manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
+        manager will be shown. If a session ID is specified,
+        properties of the session are shown. By default, empty
+        properties are suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show
+        those too. To select specific properties to show, use
+        <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be
+        used whenever computer-parsable output is required. Use
+        <command>session-status</command> if you are looking for
+        formatted human-readable output.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>activate</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable></optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Activate a session. This brings a session into
+        the foreground, if another session is currently in the
+        foreground on the respective seat. Takes a session identifier
+        as argument. If no argument is specified the session of the
+        caller is put into foreground.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>lock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+        <term><command>unlock-session</command> <optional><replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Activates/deactivates the screen lock on one
+        or more sessions, if the session supports it. Takes one or
+        more session identifiers as arguments. If no argument is
+        specified the session of the caller is locked/unlocked.
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>lock-sessions</command></term>
+        <term><command>unlock-sessions</command></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Activates/deactivates the screen lock on all
+        current sessions supporting it. </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>terminate-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Terminates a session. This kills all processes
+        of the session and deallocates all resources attached to the
+        session. </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>kill-session</command> <replaceable>ID</replaceable>...</term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Send a signal to one or more processes of the
+        session. Use <option>--kill-who=</option> to select which
+        process to kill. Use <option>--signal=</option> to select the
+        signal to send.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist></refsect2>
+
+    <refsect2><title>User Commands</title><variablelist>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>list-users</command></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>List currently logged in users.
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>user-status</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
+        one or more logged in users, followed by the most recent log
+        data from the journal. Takes one or more user names or numeric
+        user IDs as parameters. If no parameters are passed the status
+        of the caller's user is shown. This function is intended to
+        generate human-readable output. If you are looking for
+        computer-parsable output, use <command>show-user</command>
+        instead. Users may be specified by their usernames or numeric
+        user IDs. </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>show-user</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more users or the
+        manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
+        manager will be shown. If a user is specified, properties of
+        the user are shown. By default, empty properties are
+        suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show those too. To
+        select specific properties to show, use
+        <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be
+        used whenever computer-parsable output is required. Use
+        <command>user-status</command> if you are looking for
+        formatted human-readable output.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>enable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+        <term><command>disable-linger</command> <optional><replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Enable/disable user lingering for one or more
+        users. If enabled for a specific user, a user manager is
+        spawned for the user at boot and kept around after logouts.
+        This allows users who are not logged in to run long-running
+        services. Takes one or more user names or numeric UIDs as
+        argument. If no argument is specified enables/disables
+        lingering for the user of the session of the caller.
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>terminate-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Terminates all sessions of a user. This kills
+        all processes of all sessions of the user and deallocates all
+        runtime resources attached to the user.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>kill-user</command> <replaceable>USER</replaceable>...</term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Send a signal to all processes of a user. Use
+        <option>--signal=</option> to select the signal to send.
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist></refsect2>
+
+    <refsect2><title>Seat Commands</title><variablelist>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>list-seats</command></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>List currently available seats on the local
+        system.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>seat-status</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Show terse runtime status information about
+        one or more seats. Takes one or more seat names as parameters.
+        If no seat names are passed the status of the caller's
+        session's seat is shown. This function is intended to generate
+        human-readable output. If you are looking for
+        computer-parsable output, use <command>show-seat</command>
+        instead.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>show-seat</command> <optional><replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</optional></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more seats or the
+        manager itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the
+        manager will be shown. If a seat is specified, properties of
+        the seat are shown. By default, empty properties are
+        suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show those too. To
+        select specific properties to show, use
+        <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be
+        used whenever computer-parsable output is required. Use
+        <command>seat-status</command> if you are looking for
+        formatted human-readable output.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>attach</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>DEVICE</replaceable>...</term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Persistently attach one or more devices to a
+        seat. The devices should be specified via device paths in the
+        <filename>/sys</filename> file system. To create a new seat,
+        attach at least one graphics card to a previously unused seat
+        name. Seat names may consist only of a-z, A-Z, 0-9,
+        <literal>-</literal> and <literal>_</literal> and must be
+        prefixed with <literal>seat</literal>. To drop assignment of a
+        device to a specific seat, just reassign it to a different
+        seat, or use <command>flush-devices</command>.
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>flush-devices</command></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Removes all device assignments previously
+        created with <command>attach</command>. After this call, only
+        automatically generated seats will remain, and all seat
+        hardware is assigned to them.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>terminate-seat</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...</term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Terminates all sessions on a seat. This kills
+        all processes of all sessions on the seat and deallocates all
+        runtime resources attached to them.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist></refsect2>
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Exit status</title>
+
+    <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code
+    otherwise.</para>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>See Also</title>
+    <para>
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+    </para>
+  </refsect1>
 
 </refentry>