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When people complain about systemd "violating the unix philosophy", this is what they actually mean (lemmy.world)
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Credit for the answer used in the right panel: https://serverfault.com/a/841150

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is chown-R someuser different from systemctl—user?

[–] brian@programming.dev 24 points 4 months ago

one is giving the permission to manage the system service to a specific user, the other is running the service as the current user so they have permission to manage it by default