con...@kontesti.me <con...@kontesti.me> writes: > I had the same problem, but I ended up reporting it to login package > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814670 should they be > merged?). I only saw this bug here now. > > Does anyone have, at least, a workaround for this? I'd rather su or sudo into > a > user instead of having to initiate a ssh session to it (this user used to not > even have a password or SSH key). > > Not even > > # login -f username > > works.
The only workaround that I know of is: 1. Enable linger for the account. 2. Manually "attach" to the lingering session by: export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/`id -u` I also wonder if that su reimplementation that is part of new systemd is meant to fix/give control over this.
