What is the difference between user and service account?
2016年10月6日 · A service account (or “system account”, these two terms are synonyms) is one that corresponds to a service running on the system, rather than to someone using the system. You generally have a service account for each task running on the system that has its own set of privileges (e.g. its own files, its own network ports, etc.).
how to create an ssh key-pair for a service account
2021年11月25日 · I would like to generate an ssh key pair for a service account on one machine to access another machine via ssh. When I generate the key with my user, my username is embedded in the public key. E.g. This has [email protected] in the public key
Why Service accounts in Linux and Unix Systems?
This varies from distro to distro, but, if you look closely, you'll see that the "service" accounts tend to correspond to particular processes. On my Arch linux server, I've got a user ID "ntp" that the NTP daemon runs as, a user ID "http" that Apache web server runs as, and a "postgres" user for the Postgresql database processes.
Running tomcat under tomcat service account in CentOS
My system admin created a tomcat user service account under which to run tomcat. I'm generally following instructions on this page but when I get to the step where I adjust the startup script to run the tomcat startup and shutdown commands as user tomcat (Step 6, item 4) I'm being asked for a password for the tomcat account.
debian - How can I su to a user with no login shell? - Unix & Linux ...
2021年6月24日 · If your user had a login shell, you would need to type in your cmd as: su --shell=/bin/bash locked or sudo -u locked /bin/bash, provided the default shell specified for the target user is listed in /etc/shell.
What's the difference between a normal user and a system user?
That is not a technical difference but an organizational decision. E.g. it makes sense to show normal users in a login dialog (so that you can click them instead of having to type the user name) but it wouldn't to show system accounts (the UIDs under which daemons and other automatic processes run) there.
kubernetes - How to allow ServiceAccount list namespaces it has …
2022年4月18日 · I have a cluster with multiple namespaces. Let's call them: ns1 and ns2 I also have multiple service accounts, lets call them sa1 and sa2, all in one namespace - sa-ns. Both users can access all resources within both namespaces, however they cannot list namespaces they are part of. kubectl get ns --as=sa1 returns:
Best practices for running a rootless container as a systemd service ...
2022年8月19日 · b) as a user service (systemd --user) of that service user, having previously run loginctl enable-linger <username> to allow for long-running services. The idea is to standardize our future approach for small-scale daemonless & rootless container deployments in production, but I'm not entirely sure which of these approaches to pick, as I don't ...
How could we allow non-root users to control a systemd service?
An alternate option is to have an httpd.service file under webteam home directory ~/.config/systemd/user and they can start/stop/enable etc themselves: systemctl --user enable httpd.service systemctl --user start httpd.service Validated that the above works as long as the user has permission to start the service.
centos - How do I create a service for a shell script so I can start ...
Users trying to run a script as a daemon on a modern system should be using systemd: [Unit] Description=hit service After=network-online.target [Service] ExecStart=/path/to/hit.sh [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target