Cant run 'systemctl status' as a normal user

[Michael Biebl]

Am 11.03.2016 um 15:53 schrieb Sandro Tosi:
> Hey there!
> on a Jessie system, i would like to run systemctl status as a non
> privileged user, like myself, but I got:
> 
> $ systemctl status
> Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory
> 
> (stracing it, it tries to access /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket which
> doesnt exist as we dont run dbus there), while running as root (or via
> sudo) works just fine:
> 
> $ sudo systemctl status >/dev/null ; echo $?
> 0
> 
> is there a way to run 'systemctl status' as a normal user?

Install dbus.

If you run as root, systemd has a fallback to a private dbus connection
(that doesn't running a running dbus daemon) which is not accessible for
unprivileged users.


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