[systemd-devel] starting processes for other users

[Michał Zegan]

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Actually the use case is when I want to start a process for the user
where i have permission to do this, but I have no password. SSH can
not be used in this case, actually.

W dniu 2015-08-06 o 10:56, Lennart Poettering pisze:
> On Mon, 03.08.15 03:29, Spencer Baugh (sbaugh at catern.com) wrote:
> 
>> Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> writes:
>> 
>>> Michał Zegan wrote on 31/07/15 12:37:
>>>> The thing is, if the user does it, then after he leaves, the
>>>> process is running under the user's session. If I log in to
>>>> my own account, su to the other user and start the process
>>>> and then logout, this process, even though running as the 
>>>> other user, is in my own session. Actually it is sometimes
>>>> confusing to see utmp entries saying different things than
>>>> loginctl ;)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Using tools like su is rarely doing what you expect. It doesn't
>>> start a new pam session and doesn't start  a systemd --user
>>> etc. etc.
>> 
>> Is there a tool like su that does do that? That is, a way to
>> switch from root to another user without authenticating, that
>> does start a PAM session and register with logind and all of
>> that. That's something that would be useful, if it's possible...
> 
> There's SSH.
> 
> That said, I think we could probably beef up "machinectl login" to 
> also work on the local host, instead of just a container,
> providing precisely what you are asking for.
> 
> Also see:
> 
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/825
> 
> Lennart
> 
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