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

[Jeff Solomon]

Hi Michael,

Good to know. Do you count on lingering or on starting the user service on first login?

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 11:01 PM, Michael Chapman <mike at very.puzzling.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.