[systemd-devel] systemctl --user on RHEL -- is this a bad idea

[Michael Chapman]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Jeff Solomon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to use a user service (systemctl --user) with systemd on RHEL7
> where it has been deliberately removed.
>
> I've communicated with the RH dev who made this change who reported that I
> could restore the /lib/systemd/system/user at .service file and mostly
> everything would work.

I've been dropping 0004-remove-user-.service.patch from RHEL's systemd 
packages since RHEL 7.2, when Red Hat bumped systemd up from v208 to v219. 
I haven't encountered any problems with this change.