Execution as root

[undefined-moe]

When directly running under root user, it still checks for $SUDO_USER.

thread 'main' panicked at 'Must be in sudo mode. ENV variable $SUDO_USER not found: NotPresent', src/handlers/handle_create_service.rs:162:31

[secretshardul]

The User field in a .service file should be a regular user, not root. Can you get me the results of-

# User under normal operation (hp)
echo $USER

# Run as root
sudo su

# User under sudo mode (root)
echo $USER
# The normal operation user (hp)
echo $SUDO_USER

• $USER should be something like hp (whatever your default user is) and root in sudo mode
• $SUDO_USER should be your normal user, eg. hp

Which distro are you running? Usually $SUDO_USER will have a value.

As a hack you could set $SUDO_USER manually.

SUDO_USER=hp
servicer

[undefined-moe]

Thanks for your reply. I'm running ubuntu jammy in a linux container so that I prefer to execute them directly as root instead of creating another user.

SUDO_USER=root servicer ... actually worked for me, I just wonder if execution as root will be supported in the future.