Debian - Systemd to kill all user processes after logout in release/version 230

A bug is reported to Debian related to systemd.

<span style="font-family: Calibri;">systemd-logind will now by default terminate user processes that are part of the user session scope unit (session-XX.scope) when the user logs out.</span>

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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">systemd-logind will now by default terminate user processes that are part of the user session scope unit (session-XX.scope) when the user logs out.</span>

It is now indeed the case that any background processes that were still
running are killed automatically when the user logs out of a session,
whether it was a desktop session, a VT session, or when you SSHed into a
machine.

Now you can no longer expect a long running background processes to
continue after logging out. I believe this breaks the expecations of
many users. For example, you can no longer start a screen or tmux
session, log out, and expect to come back to it. For this reason, I
think it is a bad decision on the part of the systemd maintainers to
enable this feature by default, and it should rather be disabled by
default in Debian, either by compiling systemd with
--without-kill-user-processes or by setting KillUserProcesses=no in
/etc/systemd/logind.conf.

It is now indeed the case that any background processes that were still

running are killed automatically when the user logs out of a session,

whether it was a desktop session, a VT session, or when you SSHed into a

machine.

Now you can no longer expect a long running background processes to

continue after logging out. I believe this breaks the expecations of

many users. For example, you can no longer start a screen or tmux

session, log out, and expect to come back to it. For this reason, I

think it is a bad decision on the part of the systemd maintainers to

enable this feature by default, and it should rather be disabled by

default in Debian, either by compiling systemd with

--without-kill-user-processes or by setting KillUserProcesses=no in

/etc/systemd/logind.conf.

Details can be checked at <a title="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394" href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394</a>

1	Details can be checked at <a title="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394" href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394</a>