Access to the system dbus is controlled by dbus policies. You will need to write a policy for giving this user access to the systemd1 object. <div class="gmail_quote">On May 28, 2015 2:28 PM, <<a href="mailto:Aaron_Wright@selinc.com">Aaron_Wright@selinc.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm working on an embedded system, and I ran into a situation where a non-root user needs to runs systemctl, but when I try I get: ~ $ systemctl status Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory So, I try with the suid bit on systemctl set, but then I get: ~ $ systemctl status Failed to read server status: Operation not permitted My question is, is something broken, or is this expected behavior? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote></div>