diff --git a/src/home/homed-manager.c b/src/home/homed-manager.c
index b949c4b8fd..a19dc3f6c8 100644
--- a/src/home/homed-manager.c
+++ b/src/home/homed-manager.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
 #include "varlink-io.systemd.UserDatabase.h"
 #include "varlink-io.systemd.service.h"
 #include "varlink-util.h"
+#include "xattr-util.h"
 
 /* Where to look for private/public keys that are used to sign the user records. We are not using
  * CONF_PATHS_NULSTR() here since we want to insert /var/lib/systemd/home/ in the middle. And we insert that
@@ -1102,6 +1103,13 @@ static int manager_bind_varlink(Manager *m) {
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to bind to varlink socket '%s': %m", socket_path);
 
+        /* Reduce the noise routed to us: advertise that only look-ups for non-system users in the 16bit
+         * range are routed to us (excluding 'nobody', i.e. 0xfffe) */
+        char text[DECIMAL_STR_MAX(uid_t) + 1 + DECIMAL_STR_MAX(gid_t) + 1];
+        xsprintf(text, UID_FMT "-" UID_FMT, (uid_t) (SYSTEM_UID_MAX + 1), UID_NOBODY - 1);
+        FOREACH_STRING(xattr, "user.userdb.uid", "user.userdb.gid")
+                (void) xsetxattr(AT_FDCWD, socket_path, /* at_flags= */ 0, xattr, text);
+
         r = sd_varlink_server_attach_event(m->varlink_server, m->event, SD_EVENT_PRIORITY_NORMAL);
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to attach varlink connection to event loop: %m");