Re: Porting init script using unshare, overlayfs to systemd

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Di, 03.12.19 11:27, Daniel Farina (daniel@xxxxxx) wrote:

>
> Fairly neat and tidy, but of some trouble is the fact that I need a few
> root manipulations, and "User=postgres" becomes a liability for that. I
> could change that to root and then pepper "su" everywhere to get the deed
> done, but I felt inclined to write into the list to ask if that is in the
> grain of systemd's design.

You can use the "+" modifier for ExecStartPre=, which allows you to
run the command with full privileges, so that only ExecStart= has the
specified user applied.

See systemd.service(5) for details.

Lennart

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