On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.crac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all! > > I want to play a little with systemd, but first I want to use it > in a "sandbox" user, thus I start it (as non-root) from a console with > systemd --log-level=info --default-standard-output=inherit > --default-standard-error=inherit
no need for any of those arguments, but, you forgot to add --user: $ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user But, you should really execute it from a unit file, which allows you to get a PAM logon for the session, which ends up giving you the goodness that you need: [Service] User=%I PAMname=login (or system-shared, if you have that /etc/pam.d file) In other words, you should just do this as root: # systemctl start user@<username>.service > Unfortunately I'm unable to figure it out how to interact with > systemd... It seems `systemctl` complains about not being able to > connect to D-BUS, and after checking the Internet and `strace`-ing it > I figured that it only works with the systemd as PID 1... you need to set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS for the systemd --user instance, and use $ systemctl --user to interact with it. Please read my other posts about the user session. There's a lot of this info captured in there. Cheers, Auke _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
