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I want to start and stop a couple of systemd services remotely. Currently I expose the command with sudo and run it under a remotely connected user. What are ot

• Spivak 6y ago
  You don't actually have to be root at all to manage systemd services. If you give the user `org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units` in Polkit then they can just run systemctl as their user and it will work. If you only want to allow specific units the authorizer is passed the unit under `action.lookup("unit")`.
• ktpsns 6y ago
  In your case either use plain /sbin/su: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/su.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/su.1.html or login via root. Your use case sounds very sudo-like, thought. Probably stick to sudo.
  • GoblinSlayer 6y ago
    It's a batch job. Ah, I see it mentions runuser, will check it.