Restart sd-pam without reboot

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Hello all,

I am using OpenSuse 13.1. After some updates “zypper ps” shows me something like this:


PID   | PPID  | UID  | Login   | Befehl   | Dienst | Dateien
------+-------+------+---------+----------+--------+------------------------
4610  | 1     | 1000 | torsten | systemd  |        | /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.8.7
4611  | 4610  | 1000 | torsten | (sd-pam) |        | /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.8.7
4682  | 1     | 486  | munin   | systemd  |        | /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.8.7
4683  | 4682  | 486  | munin   | (sd-pam) |        | /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.8.7
4684  | 1     | 0    | root    | systemd  |        | /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.8.7
4685  | 4684  | 0    | root    | (sd-pam) |        | /lib/libdbus-1.so.3.8.7

I didn’t find a way to restart the processes besides a complete reboot. Google didn’t help me.
Can someone tell me how to restart the processes without a reboot?

Best
Torsten

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I do not know what sd-pam is (can only guess it’s related to pam),
But a search suggests that it’s a library used by other processes.

So, typically if you know what parent service is using sd-pam you can just restart the service

systemctl restart *servicenmane *

HTH,
TSU

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Thanks for the help. While trying to figure out what the parent service is I stumbled over three services with names like “user@$UID$.service”, where “$UID$” were exactly the three UID in the table. Restarting these services did the job, although I do not know what these services are exactly doing.

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As long as it works, we don’t always need to know what’s actually happening… :slight_smile:

TSU