> On 3 Mar 2026, at 20:34, Klaus Kusche <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> When I log in on a tty with my regular userid
> (I always start my X11 session from a text-only login),
> systemd logs me in as a "user-light" without any systemd services
> (and as a consequence, without pulseaudio and some other services
> usually started by systemd for regular user sessions).
>
> How do I tell systemd that I'm a regular "user",
> not a "user-light"?
>
> Does systemd think that I'm a "user-light" because my uid is 500 ?
>
> I'm 500 for more than 35 years, my homedir and all my data
> has been migrated from an AT&T SysV 3.2 unix system to linux,
> and I don't want to change my uid.
>
> However, I'm not sure that 500 is the reason for being a "user-light",
> and I found no way to set the "minimum regular user uid" for testing.
These days first uid allocated is typically 1000.
But I am not sure the uid is interesting.
Only 0, root, is interesting.
Maybe you need to set linger for you account.
You set linger with the loginctl command.
Barry
>
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