On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Kok, Auke-jan H <auke-jan.h....@intel.com> wrote: > 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
I've tried with `--user` also, but as the documentation says it's able to detect this automatically. Either way still no effect. > 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 I guess that this will be possible once I migrate -- if I migrate -- to systemd. Until then I want to try it out without breaking my current setup... >> 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. Tried that also... No change... It seems that `systemctl` explicitly tries to stat `/proc/1/root` and do something with it: ~~~~ ... (things about memory mapping, etc.) ... uname({sys="Linux", node="erebus", ...}) = 0 stat64("/proc/1/root", 0xbfc27580) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) stat64("/proc/1/root", 0xbfc27570) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) lstat64("/sys/fs/cgroup", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 lstat64("/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd", 0xbfc275d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/proc/1/root", 0xbfc27580) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) writev(2, [{"Failed to get D-Bus connection: "..., 65}, {"\n", 1}], 2Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager. ) = 66 exit_group(1) = ? +++ exited with 1 +++ ~~~~ > Please read my other posts about the user session. There's a lot of this info > captured in there. I've quickly skimmed through that... I'll give it another try... > Cheers, > > Auke Thanks! _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel