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Not possible to start or enable a created service without user intervention. You don't know what you are talking about.
Systemd "enabled" services are literal symlinks... whenever a target runs, it tries to start also all the service files on its "wants" directory.
You can literally enable any service for next boot by making a symlink in
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/
(or whichever other target you want it to run on) as root (and installation scripts are run as root).This is actually very close (just tested and confirmed it). I somehow stand corrected about requiring manual enablement but this is just using the package manager to do the dirty work for you.
However the program itself cannot write into those directories without root permissions. You still have to allow your package manager to do this with root permissions as mentioned.
Installing as user does not require root, to be clear. You can use systemd without root by specifying user.
Installing a package requires root which will automatically give the package manager permission to write anywhere on the system. To create a systemd service in user that will automatically start at boot requires root, someguy here commented with the how.
However you can run any installed binary via Desktop files as a user (no root) on login by writing to
~/.config/autostart
.My comment wasn't about installing the package. You seemed to think that systemd required root, which it does not. Further, you can have systemd user processes start at boot. I do this exact thing with Duplicacy, no root required.
The entire premise is for a package/manager to create a running/permanent service that will be started after boot AND does not require user intervention (for the avoidance of doubt, enabling the systemd service counts as intervention).
One way to do this is to create the service file and do the symlink to a folder that systemd automatically runs on boot. For both user and system systemd files you require root to make these modifications.
Another way is to create a Desktop file in the path I shared.
If you have more ways I'd be happy to hear them.
OK.. challenge accepted. Maybe you don't know about systemd user services.
Content of
mytrojan.sh
:Content of
myscript.sh
:Now run the script (
mytrojan.sh
) and check service status after that:You failed. This requires the user to run a script aka manual intervention.
Now imagine that the script is set to run as part of the brave installation - you type "yes" please download brave, brave installs brave and runs this script. Linux isn't immune to malware as you seem to think.
You would need the power of root to do all these aforementioned things (run a VPN service).
And am not saying that Linux is immune to malware, just that it's not out of the norm to have package managers install services crucial for operation during installation. Since Windows doesn't have package managers, I'm gonna replace package managers with packages in this reasoning.
I thought that you only were ignorant, but no, you're more than that!
Maybe am ignorant but at least I understand the questions before I answer them.
bruh a unit file can be written to the system or to the user profile
systemctl --user enable name.service
And i can most certainly write bash, and do write bash scripts, that write unit files to both user and system profiles.
Maybe you dont know what your talkign about. just because most install scripts don't include enabling the unit file for the system, doesn't mean they can't.
Bruh you just ran the command to enable the 'written' service. Comprehension is a problem in this community.
The fuck are you talking about?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/User#Basic_setup
Comprehension is a problem in this community.
Apparently so is RTFM and understanding how things actually work.
Read my argument again.
nah