[systemd-devel] specialized user sessions for running large processes

[Thomas Blume]

On Dienstag 2018-10-02 16:17, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> Not sure I follow. System users should have a UID below 1000 (or
> whatever your OS defines as boundary between system and regular
> users).

Sure, but even UID 0 would be still amongst the user.slice and get the
user restrictions, right?

> Moreover system services should really be started as system
> servers, and not from login sessions...

Yes, normally they should be started that way, but what if you need to
do some maintenance tasks, for example starting a database in a special
mode?

Regards
Thomas