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From: heat from fire via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Creating a service that runs a user-installed package as root
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:16:11 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1987440433.302101.1692144971020@office.mailbox.org> (raw)

Hi all,
 
First time posting on this forum.
 
I am trying to set up a service that runs "sudo mullvad-daemon" upon user login. The mullvad package is installed through Nix on a user profile.
 
I've tried creating a user service using Shepherd in a config file at "~/.config/shepherd/init.scm", but it doesn't seem possible to run the command as root.
Here's a snippet from the file:
 
(define mullvad
  (service '(mullvad)
    #:respawn? #t
    #:start (make-forkexec-constructor '("mullvad-daemon" "-v"))
    #:stop (make-kill-destructor)))
 
I read through here in hopes to find a solution, but to no avail:
https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/shepherd.html#Services
Perhaps there is a service constructor with an option to run the command as root?
 
I know that I can define a Shepherd service in my system config file, which runs the command in it as root, but given that it depends on a user-installed Nix package, I'm not sure how I'll have to accommodate for that. The command is located at /home/user/.nix-profile/bin/mullvad-daemon.
I also tried creating a regular system service using service-type, but couldn't get it to work.
 
My only other alternative is to run sudo mullvad-daemon in ~/.profile and make an exception in the sudoers file to not require a password. This solution is messy so I wanna try to avoid it. I could also put the command in the Guix equivalent of "/etc/rc.local", but I don't think there is one in Guix.
 
Any ideas on how I can create a service that runs a command installed in a user profile as root? Or alternatively, a better way to run a command as root without password on user login, after sourcing ~/.profile?
 
Thanks!

             reply	other threads:[~2023-08-29  7:50 UTC|newest]

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