systemctl start service as non-root

[Martin Cigorraga]

systemctl --user action service

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 7:02 AM Edward Quick <edwardquick at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Found out I needed to install polkit. Haven't come across this before but
> looks interesting!
>
> bash-4.3$ systemctl start tomcat at instance1
> ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
> Authentication is required to manage system services or units.
> Authenticating as: Fedora Cloud User (fedora)
> Password:
> ==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
> bash-4.3$ ps -ef | grep java
> tomcat   11056     1  0 09:44 ?        00:00:02 /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java
> -classpath
> /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/lib/java/commons-daemon.jar
> -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1
> -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs=
> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp
> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1/conf/logging.properties
> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
> ------------------------------
> From: edwardquick at hotmail.com
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: systemctl start service as non-root
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:57:12 +0000
>
>
> Hi Fedora Users,
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to start a service using systemctl
> without root privileges?
>
> For example, I've set up a tomcat instance, which starts up fine when
> issuing systemctl start with root:
>
> [root at fedora22 tomcats]# systemctl start tomcat at instance1
> [root at fedora22 tomcats]# ps -ef | grep java
> tomcat   11056     1 46 09:44 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java
> -classpath
> /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/lib/java/commons-daemon.jar
> -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1
> -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs=
> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp
> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcats/instance1/conf/logging.properties
> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
>
> But when trying to run the command as the tomcat user which owns the
> instance there's a message below I'm not sure about:
>
> [root at fedora22 system]# sudo -u tomcat bash
> bash-4.3$ id
> uid=91(tomcat) gid=91(tomcat) groups=91(tomcat)
> context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
>
> bash-4.3$ systemctl start tomcat at instance1
> Failed to start tomcat at instance1.service: The name
> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files
> bash-4.3$
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Edward
>
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