[systemd-devel] Using systemd in user sessions

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 18:20, Stefan Majewsky
<stefan.majewsky at googlemail.com> wrote:
> how can I configure systemd to run as non-super-user, in a login
> session? The only thing that seems to be related to this is the --user
> switch in the systemd command, but this fails with "Failed to create
> root cgroup hierarchy" and "Failed to allocate manager object" when
> run as non-root.

Use pam_systemd to get access to your user cgroup.

Just a note: we are not quite there to have --user do anything really
useful. It will all happen in the next 3-5 months.

Kay