[systemd-devel] Systemd user service needs to wait for encrypted $HOME to be decrypted

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 04.09.15 21:10, John (da_audiophile at yahoo.com) wrote:

> Assuming a user has an encrypted $HOME, I need a user service that will:
> 
> 
> 1) Wait for the $HOME to be decrypted, then run ExecStart, and
> 2) Run ExecStop before the user closes the encryption again.
> 3) Totally ignore the encryption requirement if the user has no
> encryption setup, ie just run normally.

But you want to do all this from the system instance of systemd?

How do you encrypt your $HOME? With LUKS? How is that set up? Only
/home or actually /home/$USER?

> RequiresMountsFor=/home/

This line should actually be all you need to make this work, as long
as /home is on LUKS.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat