On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:51:46AM +0200, Silvio Knizek wrote: > Am Montag, den 13.08.2018, 11:28 +0200 schrieb Cecil Westerhof: > > I have a service that is run as a different user as root. But only > > root can > > restart the service. Is there a way to make 'systemctl restart' work > > for > > the user that runs the service? > > Hi, > > you can either define a sudo-rule or you use policykit (polkit) for > this. See > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit#Allow_management_of_individual_systemd_units_by_regular_users > for an example. Keep in mind that the polkit feature depends on your > available systemd version.
Or, if the service has Restart= setting, user can kill the MainPID. -- Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
