On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 14:16 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 13:35 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Jim Popovitch (j...@k4vqc.com) wrote: > > > It's a VPS server, I ssh'ed in. No GUI, minimal install to test systemd > > > user unit files. > > > > Apparently you need to configure sshd to use PAM. > > > > > bob@sbc:~$ ps -ef|grep dbus > > > message+ 520 1 0 13:08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon > > > --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation -- > > > syslog-only > > > bob 2422 2413 0 18:14 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto dbus > > > bob@sbc:~$ env|grep XDG > > > bob@sbc:~$ systemctl --user status > > > Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory > > > bob@sbc:~$ > > > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=234813 > > > > It was my first Google result. > > Ugh. So the solution seems to be to add UsePAM to sshd just to make > systemd work. Not sure that I can get that approved, but I will see.
Further data: One also needs dbus-user-session which pulls in libpam- systemd -Jim P.
