[Cialug] systemctl user ; environment variables

[Shane Nehring]

er, pam_systemd excuse me, sss is sssd.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 3:24 PM Shane Nehring <shane at ntoast.com> wrote:

> The -i is probably what's doing it, as that'd go through the whole login
> process.
> I'm not sure why the gdm prompt isn't doing that as well, it may be a pam
> configuration thing. pam_sss might not be in the session section for that
> stack,  but may be for the sudo one.
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 3:16 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 3:02 PM Shane Nehring <shane at ntoast.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Are you su-ed as the user? Systemd is getting really picky about that
>> >
>>
>> I am not. I start the computer and it comes up to graphical.target. At the
>> gdm login screen I log in as me and then open a terminal window.
>>
>>  or do the systemd su thing I can't remember off the top of my head.
>> >
>>
>> If I do `machinectl shell 1000 at .host /usr/bin/systemctl --user` it works.
>> Also, it works if I do this:
>>
>> $ sudo -u todd -i
>> $ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
>> $ /usr/bin/systemctl --user
>>
>>
>> And, interestingly, right after I exit that sudo'd session, I can run
>> the systemctl --user as well. But just doing the export doesn't fix
>> it. sudo-ing to myself set something correctly. I dunno what.
>>
>> --
>> Todd
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