"Failed to enable unit: Access denied"?

[Divine Eguzouwa <divine.eguzouwa@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am unable to freely create & enable user unit files and I'm not sure why

$ systemctl edit --user --force --full test.service

Successfully installed edited file '/home/me/.config/systemd/user/test.service'.

$ cat /home/me/.config/systemd/user/test.service

[Unit]
Description=Test user unit files
[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c true
[Install]

WantedBy=default.target

$ systemd-analyze verify /home/me/.config/systemd/user/test.service

$ systemctl --user daemon-reload

$ systemctl --user enable test.service

Failed to enable unit: Unit file test.service does not exist.

$ systemctl --user enable /home/me/.config/systemd/user/test.service

Failed to enable unit: Access denied

$ systemd-analyze --user unit-paths

/home/me/.config/systemd/user.control

/run/user/60065/systemd/user.control

/run/user/60065/systemd/transient

/run/user/60065/systemd/generator.early

/home/me/.config/systemd/user

/etc/xdg/systemd/user

/etc/systemd/user

/run/user/60065/systemd/user

/run/systemd/user

/run/user/60065/systemd/generator

/home/me/.local/share/systemd/user

/usr/local/share/systemd/user

/usr/share/systemd/user

/usr/local/lib/systemd/user

/usr/lib/systemd/user

/run/user/60065/systemd/generator.late

$ ls -la /home/me/.config/systemd/user

total 12

drwxr-xr-x 2 me me 4096 Jun 13 09:42 .

drwxr-xr-x 3 me me 4096 Jun 13 09:42 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 me me  112 Jun 13 09:42 test.service

$ cat /etc/profile.d/xdg-user-dirs.sh

#!/bin/sh

# org.freedesktop.xdg

XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config

XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.cache

XDG_DATA_HOME=/$HOME/.local/share

XDG_STATE_HOME=$HOME/.local/state

I would have thought systemctl edit --user sorts out those pesky permissions issues. All available information on troubleshooting this issue that I have been able to gather only pertains to SELinux machines, which doesn't apply here.

...I missed a step, didn't I?

--D