[systemd-devel] systemd-service for each user

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 09:46:59 PST 2014


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> wrote:

> On 11/11/2014 08:35 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
>
>> Anyway, there is no command to "scan each user". To start multiple
>> units at once, make the target want all of them individually:
>> mailserver.target.wants/fetchmail at user1.service, and so on.
>>
>
> That is inconvenient for > 5 and really annoying if you've got > 1000
> users.
>
> I, too, miss a well-defined feature in systemd that allows
> to start some "per-user"-service without requiring individual
> configuration files for each single named user.
>

Normally those would be stored in /etc/systemd/user and handled by each
user's own `systemd --user` instance, so that they could be managed without
root privileges, etc.

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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