2 <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC
"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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6 SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
8 This file is part of systemd.
10 Copyright 2014 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
11 Copyright 2014 Lennart Poettering
15 <varlistentry id='user'
>
16 <term><option>--user
</option></term>
18 <listitem id='user-text'
>
19 <para>Talk to the service manager of the calling user,
20 rather than the service manager of the system.
</para>
24 <varlistentry id='system'
>
25 <term><option>--system
</option></term>
27 <listitem id='system-text'
>
28 <para>Talk to the service manager of the system. This is the
29 implied default.
</para>
33 <varlistentry id='host'
>
34 <term><option>-H
</option></term>
35 <term><option>--host=
</option></term>
37 <listitem id='host-text'
>
38 <para>Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or a
39 username and hostname separated by
<literal>@
</literal>, to
40 connect to. The hostname may optionally be suffixed by a
41 container name, separated by
<literal>:
</literal>, which
42 connects directly to a specific container on the specified
43 host. This will use SSH to talk to the remote machine manager
44 instance. Container names may be enumerated with
45 <command>machinectl -H
46 <replaceable>HOST
</replaceable></command>.
</para>
50 <varlistentry id='machine'
>
51 <term><option>-M
</option></term>
52 <term><option>--machine=
</option></term>
54 <listitem id='machine-text'
>
55 <para>Execute operation on a local container. Specify a
56 container name to connect to.
</para>