Bug#906773: systemd-login spams logs.

[Michael Biebl]

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:35:50 +0000 <Peter.Chubb at data61.csiro.au> wrote:
> 
> Package: systemd
> Version: 239-7
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> On a busy server, systemd-logind spams the logs with lots and lots of
> messages about user sessions.
> 
> These are not interactive sessions --- they're started by cron 
> from watchdog and backup servers.  But I see:
> 

That seems odd: the systemd --user instance is started via PAM for login
sessions.
The PAM config for cron should contain:

@include common-session-noninteractive

which does *not* include pam_systemd.so

Please check, which PAM config is used and does pull in pam_systemd.so
in your case.

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