Bug 88873

Summary:	RFE: tmpfiles: per user support
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Alexandre Detiste <alexandre>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	rektide
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Alexandre Detiste 2015-01-30 04:45:40 UTC

Either per user tmpfiles support, or a rule that glob all users
would be nice.

I currently use:

tchet@antec:~$ cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/okular.conf
#Type Path        Mode UID  GID  Age Argument
d /home/tchet/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/   0755 tchet tchet 3w
d /home/melanie/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/ 0755 melanie melanie 3w
d /home/julie/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/   0755 julie julie 3w


I could use (or this could be shipped by Okular for example):
#Type Path        Mode UID  GID  Age Argument
d /home/%all/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/   0755 tchet tchet 3w

or
/home/tchet/$something:
#Type Path        Mode UID  GID  Age Argument
d /home/tchet/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/   0755 tchet tchet 3w

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2015-01-30 12:21:26 UTC

Would a per-user service running in systemd --user mode work for you?

Comment 2 Alexandre Detiste 2015-01-30 13:27:34 UTC

That would be nice !

If if use as a reference systemd.unit(5) ;
this would let user install files in these 2 folders:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tmpfiles.d/user/*.conf
aka. $HOME/.config/tmpfiles.d/user/*.conf
$XDG_DATA_HOME/tmpfiles.d/user/*.conf
aka $HOME/.local/share/tmpfiles.d/user/*.conf

I'll let you choose which one is best.

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2015-02-02 19:48:50 UTC

I am pretty sure the per-system tmpfiles should not be used to clean up stuff in $HOME. If we want to support that, then tmpfiles should be run in user-context instead, as proposed by comment #1.

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2017-10-27 18:12:29 UTC

A similar RFE has been requested here:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2208

Let's close this instance.

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