[systemd-devel] DynamicUser in instantiated (and socket-activated) units

[Leonid Isaev]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 05:08:14PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> if you speciy the same user name its going to have the same uid.
> 
> use something like this:
> 
> ...
> [Service]
> ...
> User=foo-%i
> DynamicUser=1
> ...
> 
> That way you have a separate user for each instance, and the user is
> called "foo-" suffixed with the instance ID. And each UID is
> dynamically assigned.

Great, it works, thanks!

I see, so without a User= line, username is the same as the unit name (before
@)... apparently I didn't read systemd.exec manpage carefully enough.

Sincerely,
L.

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Leonid Isaev