[systemd-devel] user startable services in systemd context

[Marius Tolzmann]

Hi..

is there a simple or documented way to start a user systemd at boot time?

when i create a unit for systemd --user including the PAM setup a
user-systemd gets started under the specified user.

- is it intended that there stays a strange process named: "sd:pam"
  running as root? seems to be a child of the user-systemd process.

- how can the user manage it's user-systemd with systemctl (--user)?
  or better: how should a users dbus daemon be setup to get connected
  to it's systemd.

any ideas?

have a nice weekend..

marius..










On 04/07/11 16:18, microcai wrote:
> ? 2011?04?07? 20:55, Marius Tolzmann ??:
> 
>> Hi again..
> 
>> we have a setup where every user can start its own services
>> (e.g. a webserver, database server, whatever).
> 
>> if the user wants this service to be started after a reboot he just
>> tells us the name of its startup files and we add those to our startup
>> system. The service is then started with user privileges.
> 
>> the user is able to stop and start the service any time..
> 
>> is there a way this kind of setup can be configured in systemd?
> 
>> thats what we would like to do:
>> - start services unprivileged (this already works with systemd)
>> - let the user start, stop, restart his service
> 
> use systemd --user
> 
> 
>> currently the user is able to stop his service (e.g. just kill it) but
>> then systemd complains about a "stopped" service. if the user starts his
>> service again he starts it in his user session/cgroup which gets moved
>> to the users master session/cgroup after a logout. this is not very nice.
> 
>> so i like to clean this mess up a bit but havn't found much information
>> how this could already be done or if it is even planned to be a possible
>> configuration in the future.
> 
>> bye marius
> 
> 
> 

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