[systemd-devel] systemctl as non-root

[Aaron_Wright at selinc.com]

Brandon Philips <brandon at ifup.co> wrote on 05/28/2015 05:10:33 PM:
> 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.
>

I compiled systemd without dbus support (--disable-dbus), and there is no 
dbus daemon or dbus lib on the system. Is that a requirement to get the 
functionality I want? I didn't see much need for dbus as the system works 
quite well without it. Well, except for this of course.

> 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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