I am trying to run a systemd service from home-manager, as root. That results in the error:
Changing group credentials failed: Operation not permitted
It seems to be possible to run non home-manager systemd services as root (an example here). Does anyone know how one can achieve this via home-manager?
This is what I am trying to do:
systemd.user.services.auto-mount = {
Unit = {
Description = "systemd service for automatic mounting";
after = [ "network.target.service" ];
};
Install = {
WantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
};
Service = {
Type = "simple";
User = "root";
Group = "root";
PermissionsStartOnly = true;
ExecStart = "${pkgs.writeShellScript "auto-mount" ''
/run/wrappers/bin/mount -o bind --source /home/dob/nextcloud/syncDir --target /home/dob/syncDir
''}";
};
};
This is the output from systemctl --user status auto-mount:
Apr 26 07:02:42 t470p systemd[1455]: Started systemd service that mounts automatically.
Apr 26 07:02:42 t470p (to-mount)[17213]: auto-mount.service: Changing group credentials failed: Operation not permitted
Apr 26 07:02:42 t470p (to-mount)[17213]: auto-mount.service: Failed at step GROUP spawning /nix/store/050v2xw2rl3xkikqyrcd8fh8xd6hq7mn-auto-mount: Operation not permitted
Apr 26 07:02:42 t470p systemd[1455]: auto-mount.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=216/GROUP
Apr 26 07:02:42 t470p systemd[1455]: auto-mount.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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