[systemd-devel] Starting an unit in user mode for all users

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:10 PM Alberto Salvia Novella
<es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm writing a SystemD service for a daemon that it only works in user mode. Its name is Xiccd.
>
> The problem I’m having is that either I can enable the service as system wide, or per user. But I cannot enable it in user mode for all users, only user by user.
>
> I just liked the daemon to be started like XDG Autostart does, but with the extra capabilities of SystemD. The point is that I have found no way to do that, neither in the documentation online or by asking people.

That's what /etc/systemd/user is for.

If you create a service file and symlink it from
/etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants/, it should be started by each
user manager on startup.

See also:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#Unit%20File%20Load%20Path

Cheers,
Filipe
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