[systemd-devel] systemctl --user user can't restart their own service?

[Jeff Solomon]

Hi,

Is it by-design that a user can't restart their own user service?

I have worked around this by doing the following:

Override /lib/systemd/system/user at .service with a new file:

/etc/systemd/system/user@<uid>.service

I could have left out the <uid> if I wanted the override to apply to all
users, but in this case, I want it to apply to only a single user.

In user@<uid>.service, I added:

Restart=always

to the [Service] section.

Viola! Now the user can just kill their own service (since they own it
after all) and systemd will restart it for them.

Any problem with this workaround Lennart?

Thanks,

Jeff
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