Allow any user to manage a specific service using systemctl

Canberk Sönmez · 2015-11-26 15:35:29

How can I allow any user to start or stop a service which needs root rights to be started or to be stopped using systemctl?

Trilby · 2015-11-26 15:45:54

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo

jinal · 2015-12-02 22:35:35

If you don't want all your users to get sudo access, perhaps you could also try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit

I am not certain it would let you allow specific users to only enable a specific service, but it looks promising to me. Perhaps some sort of wrapper script.

Good luck.

Last edited by jinal (2015-12-03 09:46:05)

Trilby · 2015-12-03 03:25:10

jinal wrote:

If you don't want all your users to get sudo access...

What does this mean? With sudo you configure which users should be allowed to run what commands.

jinal · 2015-12-03 09:46:37

Trilby, sorry, my mistake.

openrijal · 2015-12-10 05:00:11

you can use "visudo" to add that user to run only a specific command and not require password. Something like this

user1 ANY=(ANY) service

Trilby · 2015-12-10 13:35:37

openrijal, that would still require a password. The instructions on how to do it properly are in the wiki or man page.

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Allow any user to manage a specific service using systemctl

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