From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ison Subject: Re: shepherd as normal user Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 18:58:57 -0600 Message-ID: <20191004005857.3ku6m62sfcjbww57@n0> References: <7fe0ffe0-cbc3-480b-9d4d-b84d890a62a6@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iGBwR-0006QV-C5 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:59:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iGBwO-0000ba-Sr for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:59:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.cock.li ([185.10.68.5]:34469 helo=cock.li) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iGBw1-00004z-Np for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:59:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7fe0ffe0-cbc3-480b-9d4d-b84d890a62a6@www.fastmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Hamzeh Nasajpour Cc: help-guix@gnu.org On Fri, Oct 04, 2019, Hamzeh Nasajpour wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to run `shepherd` as a normal user automatically (at startup). How can I do that? > > I know the `shepherd` will be run as root with PID=1 in the init system, but I have some services that should be run by `shepherd` for normal users. > > Regards, > Hamzeh It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere I could find, but there was a simple example posted to this mailing list a while back that helped me: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-04/msg00580.html