Hoping for a little help getting vopono.service working... 😕

[5p4r74cu5]

Hey everyone, I'm relatively new to linux 👩‍🚀 so please excuse my ignorance.

I'm trying to setup a root service and haven't been able to get it working. Vopono runs fine when I execute it directly in the terminal, and I can get the service running fine; it just doesn't seem to open qbittorrent as intended. Any suggestions would be appreciated :-)

[Unit]
Description=Vopono
After=network.target
Before=

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vopono -v exec -k -f 9091 --protocol openvpn --provider protonvpn --server hong_kong-hk qbittorrent
ExecReload=
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
RequiredBy=network.target

[jamesmcm]

I think at the moment the only way to run it as your user with systemd, is to run it as a user service, and then enable passwordless sudo for the user.

But you might want to check the systemctl status of the service and journalctl for any error messages.

[5p4r74cu5]

Ah I see, hmmm... how risky, security wise, is it to have a user with passwordless sudo if I'm only using that user to run the vopono service.

[SocietasCooperationis]

It is possible for systemd services run as root to execute as a user by putting Environment=SUDO_USER=<user> under the "[Service]" section.

[5p4r74cu5]

It is possible for systemd services run as root to execute as a user by putting Environment=SUDO_USER=<user> under the "[Service]" section.

Thanks for the suggestion, it's taken me a while to get around to trying it! I get this issue when trying it, and am not sure what to do about it.

Jul 03 13:43:33 P52 sudo[143262]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Jul 03 13:43:33 P52 sudo[143262]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for <user>

Any suggestions? I did some googling but couldn't figure out what the right approach is.

[musjj]

Having the same pam_unix error. Are there any solutions here? It's weird that it's still trying to authenticate the password even though it's a root service. What's going on here?