Hi Lennart, I know we are not using the pam_systemd. That is the reason we try to run the steps manually. It was possible to start the user@<UID>.service in systemd v253, but it fails now with v254 or later.
Best regards, Christopher Wong From: Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 7 December 2023 at 22:03 To: Christopher Wong <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Manual start of user@<uid>.service failed with permission denied On Do, 07.12.23 18:29, Christopher Wong ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi Lennart, > > We are doing the steps to start up a rootless docker. If I don’t set > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR then I will get the below error: > > systemd[1925]: Trying to run as user instance, but $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR > is not set. pam_systemd is responsible for setting this env var. Most likely you are missing that from the PAM stack that is used by this [email protected] instance? > The 503 is a system user. So, just to try it out, I created a user, > which got the UID 1001. Using that UID gave me the same result as > the 503. It's a bad idea to run user stuff as system user. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin
