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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-10-19 23:40:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-10-20 13:21:25 +0200 |
| commit | 47da760efddc1fae8dac460430efd0ae7090c6c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ca032131872ae87a374fc5ce9052f23687a2736 | |
| parent | 8ae2c6300feffc598f1b13b9268e7312c647d19e (diff) | |
man: document default for User=
Replaces: #4375
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.exec.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml index 7453aa7bee..dbe4594730 100644 --- a/man/systemd.exec.xml +++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml @@ -141,8 +141,13 @@ <term><varname>Group=</varname></term> <listitem><para>Set the UNIX user or group that the processes are executed as, respectively. Takes a single - user or group name, or numeric ID as argument. If no group is set, the default group of the user is used. This - setting does not affect commands whose command line is prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem> + user or group name, or numeric ID as argument. For system services (services run by the system service manager, + i.e. managed by PID 1) and for user services of the root user (services managed by root's instance of + <command>systemd --user</command>), the default is <literal>root</literal>, but <varname>User=</varname> may be + used to specify a different user. For user services of any other user, switching user identity is not + permitted, hence the only valid setting is the same user the user's service manager is running as. If no group + is set, the default group of the user is used. This setting does not affect commands whose command line is + prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |