Re: correct use of su

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Adrien Clerc wrote:
> In systemd, the ExecStartPre directive can be helpful. But the
> documentation doesn't say if it is executed as the user defined in the
> User directive, or as root. I guess the latter is done, but I'm too lazy
> right now to test it :)

>From the systemd.service[0] manual page (search for "User="):

    PermissionsStartOnly=

        Takes a boolean argument. If true, the permission-related
        execution options, as configured with User= and similar
        options (see systemd.exec(5) for more information), are only
        applied to the process started with ExecStart=, and not to the
        various other ExecStartPre=, ExecStartPost=, ExecReload=,
        ExecStop=, and ExecStopPost= commands. If false, the setting
        is applied to all configured commands the same way. Defaults
        to false.

[0]: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html

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