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Socal Tom

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Registered: 2013-04-09

Posts: 21

How to change user on motion daemon

I using motion to monitor some security cameras. All the files are saved as owned by root.   Samba won't let me create a root samba user, so is there a way to make the daemon start as a different user?   I checked the motion wiki and didn't find anything.  I also searched the arch wiki but didn't get any relevant results.
Thanks
Tom

mau5kito

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Registered: 2013-05-11

Posts: 6

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Re: How to change user on motion daemon

Did you solve your problem? If not, how do you launch motion?

You can launch it as a normal user and specify your config file with:

motion -c ~/motion.conf

Don't forget to set your target_dir.

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X-NicON

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Registered: 2013-02-27

Posts: 2

Re: How to change user on motion daemon

in /lib/systemd/system/motion.service
Add to [Service]

User=username
Group=groupname

can create user and group "motion" (as in ubuntu) (add group video for motion user, and rights 777 conf file)
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Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: How to change user on motion daemon

in /lib/systemd/system/motion.service

You shouldn't do this as the file will get overwritten every time you update motion.

Either create a .conf file with the additions or copy the file to /etc/systemd/system/motion.service and edit that instead.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … unit_files

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