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Bug 1795555 - Provide a way for privileged users to interact with systemd user instances
Summary: Provide a way for privileged users to interact with systemd user instances
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 8.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Jacek Migacz
QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1907903 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-01-28 10:12 UTC by Renaud Métrich
Modified: 2023-10-06 19:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-09-21 10:55:01 UTC
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Github redhat-plumbers systemd-rhel8 pull 258 0 None Draft (#1795555) Provide a way for privileged users to interact with systemd user instances 2023-05-16 08:05:47 UTC
Github systemd systemd issues 14580 0 None closed systemctl -M user@.host VERB should work 2021-01-26 08:57:05 UTC
Github systemd systemd pull 17967 0 None closed add support for "systemctl --user --machine=foobar@.host" for connecting to user bus of user "foobar" 2021-07-26 09:30:48 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker   RHEL-5828 0 None Migrated None 2023-09-21 10:51:48 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 4661741 0 None None None 2020-01-28 10:14:51 UTC

Description Renaud Métrich 2020-01-28 10:12:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

With RHEL8.x, users can have their own systemd instance, but there is no way for the root user or privileged users (e.g. in "wheel" group) to manage the systemd user instances at all.

So far, the only way is to use "sudo+XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" which is not a good solution: 

$ sudo -u user1 /bin/bash -c "export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u user1); /usr/bin/systemctl --user list-units"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

systemd-239+


How reproducible:

N/A


Additional info:


See also:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/14580
Comment 3 David Tardon 2021-01-04 12:57:14 UTC 
*** Bug 1907903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 David Tardon 2023-05-16 08:49:56 UTC 
(In reply to Renaud Métrich from comment #0)
> $ sudo -u user1 /bin/bash -c "export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u
> user1); /usr/bin/systemctl --user list-units"

This can be shortened a bit:

$ sudo -u user1 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u user1) systemctl --user list-units
Comment 16 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-21 10:48:54 UTC 
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