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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2017-02-03 09:41:53 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2017-02-03 11:49:22 -0500
commit8b89628a10af3863bfc97872912e9da4076a5929 (patch)
tree4e87bbe05d1182fc099f5c7ea60d80d47cdd59a4
parentd201d90838bd041b7fad5fce79861d0e5273e84e (diff)
core/execute: set HOME, USER also for root users
This changes the environment for services running as root from: LANG=C.utf8 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin INVOCATION_ID=ffbdec203c69499a9b83199333e31555 JOURNAL_STREAM=8:1614518 to LANG=C.utf8 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin HOME=/root LOGNAME=root USER=root SHELL=/bin/sh INVOCATION_ID=15a077963d7b4ca0b82c91dc6519f87c JOURNAL_STREAM=8:1616718 Making the environment special for the root user complicates things unnecessarily. This change simplifies both our logic (by making the setting of the variables unconditional), and should also simplify the logic in services (particularly scripts). Fixes #5124.
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.exec.xml4
-rw-r--r--src/core/execute.c5
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index 699f6e263f..8079b4b210 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -1694,9 +1694,7 @@
<term><varname>$SHELL</varname></term>
<listitem><para>User name (twice), home directory, and the
- login shell. The variables are set for the units that have
- <varname>User=</varname> set, which includes user
- <command>systemd</command> instances. See
+ login shell. See
<citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>passwd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/core/execute.c b/src/core/execute.c
index 47cc4311c1..67b54a3bec 100644
--- a/src/core/execute.c
+++ b/src/core/execute.c
@@ -815,13 +815,10 @@ static int get_fixed_user(const ExecContext *c, const char **user,
assert(c);
- if (!c->user)
- return 0;
-
/* Note that we don't set $HOME or $SHELL if they are not particularly enlightening anyway
* (i.e. are "/" or "/bin/nologin"). */
- name = c->user;
+ name = c->user ?: "root";
r = get_user_creds_clean(&name, uid, gid, home, shell);
if (r < 0)
return r;