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I managed to disable the feature via polkit. To do this I created two policy files:

_/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-disable-linger-self.pkla_

```ini
[disable loginctl linger self]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.set-self-linger
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=no
```

_/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/60-disable-linger-user.pkla_

```ini
[disable loginctl linger user]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.set-user-linger
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=no
```

This effectively disables the ability for regular users.

```console
gerald@node:~$ loginctl enable-linger gerald
Could not enable linger: Access denied
```