[systemd-devel] systemctl as non-root

Brandon Philips brandon at ifup.co
Thu May 28 17:10:33 PDT 2015


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.
On May 28, 2015 2:28 PM, <Aaron_Wright at selinc.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
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