How to start weston with non root user?

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 11:11:56 UTC 2016


On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:23:47 +0530
Vikas Patil <vikasmpatil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I have a requirement to start the weston 1.8.0 with non-root user. I
> tried it starting weston using following commands in systemd unit file
> with "root" user (first to verify if all commands works) .

Ah, so *that* was the huge catch you didn't mention earlier. Launching
Weston from a systemd unit is a whole another topic than just "start as
non-root user".

Does https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T63 help?


Thanks,
pq
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