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24<refentry id="systemd.exec">
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25 <refentryinfo>
26 <title>systemd.exec</title>
27 <productname>systemd</productname>
28
29 <authorgroup>
30 <author>
31 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
32 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
33 <surname>Poettering</surname>
34 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
35 </author>
36 </authorgroup>
37 </refentryinfo>
38
39 <refmeta>
40 <refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle>
41 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
42 </refmeta>
43
44 <refnamediv>
45 <refname>systemd.exec</refname>
46 <refpurpose>Execution environment configuration</refpurpose>
47 </refnamediv>
48
49 <refsynopsisdiv>
50 <para><filename><replaceable>service</replaceable>.service</filename>,
51 <filename><replaceable>socket</replaceable>.socket</filename>,
52 <filename><replaceable>mount</replaceable>.mount</filename>,
53 <filename><replaceable>swap</replaceable>.swap</filename></para>
54 </refsynopsisdiv>
55
56 <refsect1>
57 <title>Description</title>
58
59 <para>Unit configuration files for services, sockets, mount
60 points, and swap devices share a subset of configuration options
61 which define the execution environment of spawned
62 processes.</para>
63
64 <para>This man page lists the configuration options shared by
65 these four unit types. See
66 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
67 for the common options of all unit configuration files, and
68 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
69 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
70 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
71 and
72 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
73 for more information on the specific unit configuration files. The
74 execution specific configuration options are configured in the
75 [Service], [Socket], [Mount], or [Swap] sections, depending on the
76 unit type.</para>
74b47bbd 77
c7458f93 78 <para>In addition, options which control resources through Linux Control Groups (cgroups) are listed in
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79 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
80 Those options complement options listed here.</para>
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81 </refsect1>
82
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83 <refsect1>
84 <title>Automatic Dependencies</title>
85
86 <para>A few execution parameters result in additional, automatic
87 dependencies to be added.</para>
88
89 <para>Units with <varname>WorkingDirectory=</varname> or
90 <varname>RootDirectory=</varname> set automatically gain
91 dependencies of type <varname>Requires=</varname> and
92 <varname>After=</varname> on all mount units required to access
93 the specified paths. This is equivalent to having them listed
94 explicitly in <varname>RequiresMountsFor=</varname>.</para>
95
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96 <para>Similar, units with <varname>PrivateTmp=</varname> enabled automatically get mount unit dependencies for all
97 mounts required to access <filename>/tmp</filename> and <filename>/var/tmp</filename>. They will also gain an
98 automatic <varname>After=</varname> dependency on
99 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
c129bd5d 100
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101 <para>Units whose standard output or error output is connected to <option>journal</option>, <option>syslog</option>
102 or <option>kmsg</option> (or their combinations with console output, see below) automatically acquire dependencies
103 of type <varname>After=</varname> on <filename>systemd-journald.socket</filename>.</para>
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104 </refsect1>
105
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106 <refsect1>
107 <title>Options</title>
108
109 <variablelist class='unit-directives'>
110
111 <varlistentry>
112 <term><varname>WorkingDirectory=</varname></term>
113
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114 <listitem><para>Takes a directory path relative to the service's root directory specified by
115 <varname>RootDirectory=</varname>, or the special value <literal>~</literal>. Sets the working directory for
116 executed processes. If set to <literal>~</literal>, the home directory of the user specified in
117 <varname>User=</varname> is used. If not set, defaults to the root directory when systemd is running as a
118 system instance and the respective user's home directory if run as user. If the setting is prefixed with the
119 <literal>-</literal> character, a missing working directory is not considered fatal. If
120 <varname>RootDirectory=</varname> is not set, then <varname>WorkingDirectory=</varname> is relative to the root
121 of the system running the service manager. Note that setting this parameter might result in additional
122 dependencies to be added to the unit (see above).</para></listitem>
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123 </varlistentry>
124
125 <varlistentry>
126 <term><varname>RootDirectory=</varname></term>
127
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128 <listitem><para>Takes a directory path relative to the host's root directory (i.e. the root of the system
129 running the service manager). Sets the root directory for executed processes, with the <citerefentry
130 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> system
131 call. If this is used, it must be ensured that the process binary and all its auxiliary files are available in
132 the <function>chroot()</function> jail. Note that setting this parameter might result in additional
133 dependencies to be added to the unit (see above).</para>
134
135 <para>The <varname>PrivateUsers=</varname> setting is particularly useful in conjunction with
136 <varname>RootDirectory=</varname>. For details, see below.</para></listitem>
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137 </varlistentry>
138
139 <varlistentry>
140 <term><varname>User=</varname></term>
141 <term><varname>Group=</varname></term>
142
29206d46 143 <listitem><para>Set the UNIX user or group that the processes are executed as, respectively. Takes a single
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144 user or group name, or numeric ID as argument. For system services (services run by the system service manager,
145 i.e. managed by PID 1) and for user services of the root user (services managed by root's instance of
146 <command>systemd --user</command>), the default is <literal>root</literal>, but <varname>User=</varname> may be
147 used to specify a different user. For user services of any other user, switching user identity is not
148 permitted, hence the only valid setting is the same user the user's service manager is running as. If no group
149 is set, the default group of the user is used. This setting does not affect commands whose command line is
150 prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem>
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151 </varlistentry>
152
153 <varlistentry>
154 <term><varname>DynamicUser=</varname></term>
155
156 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean parameter. If set, a UNIX user and group pair is allocated dynamically when the
157 unit is started, and released as soon as it is stopped. The user and group will not be added to
158 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> or <filename>/etc/group</filename>, but are managed transiently during
159 runtime. The <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nss-systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
160 glibc NSS module provides integration of these dynamic users/groups into the system's user and group
161 databases. The user and group name to use may be configured via <varname>User=</varname> and
162 <varname>Group=</varname> (see above). If these options are not used and dynamic user/group allocation is
163 enabled for a unit, the name of the dynamic user/group is implicitly derived from the unit name. If the unit
164 name without the type suffix qualifies as valid user name it is used directly, otherwise a name incorporating a
165 hash of it is used. If a statically allocated user or group of the configured name already exists, it is used
166 and no dynamic user/group is allocated. Dynamic users/groups are allocated from the UID/GID range
167 61184…65519. It is recommended to avoid this range for regular system or login users. At any point in time
168 each UID/GID from this range is only assigned to zero or one dynamically allocated users/groups in
169 use. However, UID/GIDs are recycled after a unit is terminated. Care should be taken that any processes running
170 as part of a unit for which dynamic users/groups are enabled do not leave files or directories owned by these
171 users/groups around, as a different unit might get the same UID/GID assigned later on, and thus gain access to
63bb64a0 172 these files or directories. If <varname>DynamicUser=</varname> is enabled, <varname>RemoveIPC=</varname>,
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173 <varname>PrivateTmp=</varname> are implied. This ensures that the lifetime of IPC objects and temporary files
174 created by the executed processes is bound to the runtime of the service, and hence the lifetime of the dynamic
175 user/group. Since <filename>/tmp</filename> and <filename>/var/tmp</filename> are usually the only
176 world-writable directories on a system this ensures that a unit making use of dynamic user/group allocation
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177 cannot leave files around after unit termination. Moreover <varname>ProtectSystem=strict</varname> and
178 <varname>ProtectHome=read-only</varname> are implied, thus prohibiting the service to write to arbitrary file
179 system locations. In order to allow the service to write to certain directories, they have to be whitelisted
cfaf4b75 180 using <varname>ReadWritePaths=</varname>, but care must be taken so that UID/GID recycling doesn't
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181 create security issues involving files created by the service. Use <varname>RuntimeDirectory=</varname> (see
182 below) in order to assign a writable runtime directory to a service, owned by the dynamic user/group and
183 removed automatically when the unit is terminated. Defaults to off.</para></listitem>
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184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry>
187 <term><varname>SupplementaryGroups=</varname></term>
188
189 <listitem><para>Sets the supplementary Unix groups the
190 processes are executed as. This takes a space-separated list
191 of group names or IDs. This option may be specified more than
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192 once, in which case all listed groups are set as supplementary
193 groups. When the empty string is assigned, the list of
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194 supplementary groups is reset, and all assignments prior to
195 this one will have no effect. In any way, this option does not
196 override, but extends the list of supplementary groups
197 configured in the system group database for the
43eb109a 198 user. This does not affect commands prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem>
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199 </varlistentry>
200
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201 <varlistentry>
202 <term><varname>RemoveIPC=</varname></term>
203
204 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean parameter. If set, all System V and POSIX IPC objects owned by the user and
205 group the processes of this unit are run as are removed when the unit is stopped. This setting only has an
206 effect if at least one of <varname>User=</varname>, <varname>Group=</varname> and
207 <varname>DynamicUser=</varname> are used. It has no effect on IPC objects owned by the root user. Specifically,
208 this removes System V semaphores, as well as System V and POSIX shared memory segments and message queues. If
209 multiple units use the same user or group the IPC objects are removed when the last of these units is
210 stopped. This setting is implied if <varname>DynamicUser=</varname> is set.</para></listitem>
211 </varlistentry>
212
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213 <varlistentry>
214 <term><varname>Nice=</varname></term>
215
216 <listitem><para>Sets the default nice level (scheduling
217 priority) for executed processes. Takes an integer between -20
218 (highest priority) and 19 (lowest priority). See
219 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setpriority</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
220 for details.</para></listitem>
221 </varlistentry>
222
223 <varlistentry>
224 <term><varname>OOMScoreAdjust=</varname></term>
225
226 <listitem><para>Sets the adjustment level for the
227 Out-Of-Memory killer for executed processes. Takes an integer
228 between -1000 (to disable OOM killing for this process) and
229 1000 (to make killing of this process under memory pressure
230 very likely). See <ulink
231 url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt">proc.txt</ulink>
232 for details.</para></listitem>
233 </varlistentry>
234
235 <varlistentry>
236 <term><varname>IOSchedulingClass=</varname></term>
237
b938cb90 238 <listitem><para>Sets the I/O scheduling class for executed
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239 processes. Takes an integer between 0 and 3 or one of the
240 strings <option>none</option>, <option>realtime</option>,
241 <option>best-effort</option> or <option>idle</option>. See
242 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ioprio_set</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
243 for details.</para></listitem>
244 </varlistentry>
245
246 <varlistentry>
247 <term><varname>IOSchedulingPriority=</varname></term>
248
b938cb90 249 <listitem><para>Sets the I/O scheduling priority for executed
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250 processes. Takes an integer between 0 (highest priority) and 7
251 (lowest priority). The available priorities depend on the
b938cb90 252 selected I/O scheduling class (see above). See
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253 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ioprio_set</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
254 for details.</para></listitem>
255 </varlistentry>
256
257 <varlistentry>
258 <term><varname>CPUSchedulingPolicy=</varname></term>
259
260 <listitem><para>Sets the CPU scheduling policy for executed
261 processes. Takes one of
262 <option>other</option>,
263 <option>batch</option>,
264 <option>idle</option>,
265 <option>fifo</option> or
266 <option>rr</option>. See
267 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sched_setscheduler</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
268 for details.</para></listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry>
272 <term><varname>CPUSchedulingPriority=</varname></term>
273
274 <listitem><para>Sets the CPU scheduling priority for executed
275 processes. The available priority range depends on the
276 selected CPU scheduling policy (see above). For real-time
277 scheduling policies an integer between 1 (lowest priority) and
278 99 (highest priority) can be used. See
279 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sched_setscheduler</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
280 for details. </para></listitem>
281 </varlistentry>
282
283 <varlistentry>
284 <term><varname>CPUSchedulingResetOnFork=</varname></term>
285
286 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, elevated
287 CPU scheduling priorities and policies will be reset when the
288 executed processes fork, and can hence not leak into child
289 processes. See
290 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sched_setscheduler</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
291 for details. Defaults to false.</para></listitem>
292 </varlistentry>
293
294 <varlistentry>
295 <term><varname>CPUAffinity=</varname></term>
296
297 <listitem><para>Controls the CPU affinity of the executed
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298 processes. Takes a list of CPU indices or ranges separated by
299 either whitespace or commas. CPU ranges are specified by the
300 lower and upper CPU indices separated by a dash.
b938cb90 301 This option may be specified more than once, in which case the
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302 specified CPU affinity masks are merged. If the empty string
303 is assigned, the mask is reset, all assignments prior to this
304 will have no effect. See
305 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sched_setaffinity</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
306 for details.</para></listitem>
307 </varlistentry>
308
309 <varlistentry>
310 <term><varname>UMask=</varname></term>
311
312 <listitem><para>Controls the file mode creation mask. Takes an
313 access mode in octal notation. See
314 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>umask</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
315 for details. Defaults to 0022.</para></listitem>
316 </varlistentry>
317
318 <varlistentry>
319 <term><varname>Environment=</varname></term>
320
321 <listitem><para>Sets environment variables for executed
322 processes. Takes a space-separated list of variable
b938cb90 323 assignments. This option may be specified more than once, in
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324 which case all listed variables will be set. If the same
325 variable is set twice, the later setting will override the
326 earlier setting. If the empty string is assigned to this
327 option, the list of environment variables is reset, all prior
328 assignments have no effect. Variable expansion is not
329 performed inside the strings, however, specifier expansion is
330 possible. The $ character has no special meaning. If you need
331 to assign a value containing spaces to a variable, use double
332 quotes (") for the assignment.</para>
333
334 <para>Example:
335 <programlisting>Environment="VAR1=word1 word2" VAR2=word3 "VAR3=$word 5 6"</programlisting>
336 gives three variables <literal>VAR1</literal>,
337 <literal>VAR2</literal>, <literal>VAR3</literal>
338 with the values <literal>word1 word2</literal>,
339 <literal>word3</literal>, <literal>$word 5 6</literal>.
340 </para>
341
342 <para>
343 See
344 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
345 for details about environment variables.</para></listitem>
346 </varlistentry>
347 <varlistentry>
348 <term><varname>EnvironmentFile=</varname></term>
349 <listitem><para>Similar to <varname>Environment=</varname> but
350 reads the environment variables from a text file. The text
351 file should contain new-line-separated variable assignments.
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352 Empty lines, lines without an <literal>=</literal> separator,
353 or lines starting with ; or # will be ignored,
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354 which may be used for commenting. A line ending with a
355 backslash will be concatenated with the following one,
356 allowing multiline variable definitions. The parser strips
357 leading and trailing whitespace from the values of
358 assignments, unless you use double quotes (").</para>
359
360 <para>The argument passed should be an absolute filename or
361 wildcard expression, optionally prefixed with
362 <literal>-</literal>, which indicates that if the file does
363 not exist, it will not be read and no error or warning message
364 is logged. This option may be specified more than once in
365 which case all specified files are read. If the empty string
366 is assigned to this option, the list of file to read is reset,
367 all prior assignments have no effect.</para>
368
369 <para>The files listed with this directive will be read
370 shortly before the process is executed (more specifically,
371 after all processes from a previous unit state terminated.
372 This means you can generate these files in one unit state, and
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373 read it with this option in the next).</para>
374
375 <para>Settings from these
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376 files override settings made with
377 <varname>Environment=</varname>. If the same variable is set
378 twice from these files, the files will be read in the order
379 they are specified and the later setting will override the
380 earlier setting.</para></listitem>
381 </varlistentry>
382
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383 <varlistentry>
384 <term><varname>PassEnvironment=</varname></term>
385
386 <listitem><para>Pass environment variables from the systemd system
387 manager to executed processes. Takes a space-separated list of variable
388 names. This option may be specified more than once, in which case all
389 listed variables will be set. If the empty string is assigned to this
390 option, the list of environment variables is reset, all prior
391 assignments have no effect. Variables that are not set in the system
392 manager will not be passed and will be silently ignored.</para>
393
394 <para>Variables passed from this setting are overridden by those passed
395 from <varname>Environment=</varname> or
396 <varname>EnvironmentFile=</varname>.</para>
397
398 <para>Example:
399 <programlisting>PassEnvironment=VAR1 VAR2 VAR3</programlisting>
400 passes three variables <literal>VAR1</literal>,
401 <literal>VAR2</literal>, <literal>VAR3</literal>
402 with the values set for those variables in PID1.</para>
403
404 <para>
405 See
406 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
407 for details about environment variables.</para></listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
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410 <varlistentry>
411 <term><varname>StandardInput=</varname></term>
412 <listitem><para>Controls where file descriptor 0 (STDIN) of
413 the executed processes is connected to. Takes one of
414 <option>null</option>,
415 <option>tty</option>,
416 <option>tty-force</option>,
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417 <option>tty-fail</option>,
418 <option>socket</option> or
419 <option>fd</option>.</para>
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420
421 <para>If <option>null</option> is selected, standard input
422 will be connected to <filename>/dev/null</filename>, i.e. all
423 read attempts by the process will result in immediate
424 EOF.</para>
425
426 <para>If <option>tty</option> is selected, standard input is
427 connected to a TTY (as configured by
428 <varname>TTYPath=</varname>, see below) and the executed
429 process becomes the controlling process of the terminal. If
430 the terminal is already being controlled by another process,
431 the executed process waits until the current controlling
432 process releases the terminal.</para>
433
434 <para><option>tty-force</option> is similar to
435 <option>tty</option>, but the executed process is forcefully
436 and immediately made the controlling process of the terminal,
437 potentially removing previous controlling processes from the
438 terminal.</para>
439
440 <para><option>tty-fail</option> is similar to
441 <option>tty</option> but if the terminal already has a
442 controlling process start-up of the executed process
443 fails.</para>
444
445 <para>The <option>socket</option> option is only valid in
446 socket-activated services, and only when the socket
447 configuration file (see
448 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
449 for details) specifies a single socket only. If this option is
450 set, standard input will be connected to the socket the
451 service was activated from, which is primarily useful for
452 compatibility with daemons designed for use with the
453 traditional
b5c7d097 454 <citerefentry project='freebsd'><refentrytitle>inetd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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455 daemon.</para>
456
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457 <para>The <option>fd</option> option connects
458 the input stream to a single file descriptor provided by a socket unit.
459 A custom named file descriptor can be specified as part of this option,
460 after a <literal>:</literal> (e.g. <literal>fd:<replaceable>foobar</replaceable></literal>).
461 If no name is specified, <literal>stdin</literal> is assumed
462 (i.e. <literal>fd</literal> is equivalent to <literal>fd:stdin</literal>).
463 At least one socket unit defining such name must be explicitly provided via the
464 <varname>Sockets=</varname> option, and file descriptor name may differ
465 from the name of its containing socket unit.
466 If multiple matches are found, the first one will be used.
467 See <varname>FileDescriptorName=</varname> in
468 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
469 for more details about named descriptors and ordering.</para>
470
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471 <para>This setting defaults to
472 <option>null</option>.</para></listitem>
473 </varlistentry>
c129bd5d 474
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475 <varlistentry>
476 <term><varname>StandardOutput=</varname></term>
477 <listitem><para>Controls where file descriptor 1 (STDOUT) of
478 the executed processes is connected to. Takes one of
479 <option>inherit</option>,
480 <option>null</option>,
481 <option>tty</option>,
482 <option>journal</option>,
483 <option>syslog</option>,
484 <option>kmsg</option>,
485 <option>journal+console</option>,
486 <option>syslog+console</option>,
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487 <option>kmsg+console</option>,
488 <option>socket</option> or
489 <option>fd</option>.</para>
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490
491 <para><option>inherit</option> duplicates the file descriptor
492 of standard input for standard output.</para>
493
494 <para><option>null</option> connects standard output to
495 <filename>/dev/null</filename>, i.e. everything written to it
496 will be lost.</para>
497
498 <para><option>tty</option> connects standard output to a tty
499 (as configured via <varname>TTYPath=</varname>, see below). If
500 the TTY is used for output only, the executed process will not
501 become the controlling process of the terminal, and will not
502 fail or wait for other processes to release the
503 terminal.</para>
504
505 <para><option>journal</option> connects standard output with
506 the journal which is accessible via
507 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
508 Note that everything that is written to syslog or kmsg (see
509 below) is implicitly stored in the journal as well, the
510 specific two options listed below are hence supersets of this
511 one.</para>
512
513 <para><option>syslog</option> connects standard output to the
514 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
515 system syslog service, in addition to the journal. Note that
516 the journal daemon is usually configured to forward everything
517 it receives to syslog anyway, in which case this option is no
518 different from <option>journal</option>.</para>
519
520 <para><option>kmsg</option> connects standard output with the
521 kernel log buffer which is accessible via
522 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>dmesg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
523 in addition to the journal. The journal daemon might be
524 configured to send all logs to kmsg anyway, in which case this
525 option is no different from <option>journal</option>.</para>
526
527 <para><option>journal+console</option>,
528 <option>syslog+console</option> and
529 <option>kmsg+console</option> work in a similar way as the
530 three options above but copy the output to the system console
531 as well.</para>
532
533 <para><option>socket</option> connects standard output to a
534 socket acquired via socket activation. The semantics are
535 similar to the same option of
536 <varname>StandardInput=</varname>.</para>
537
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539 the output stream to a single file descriptor provided by a socket unit.
540 A custom named file descriptor can be specified as part of this option,
541 after a <literal>:</literal> (e.g. <literal>fd:<replaceable>foobar</replaceable></literal>).
542 If no name is specified, <literal>stdout</literal> is assumed
543 (i.e. <literal>fd</literal> is equivalent to <literal>fd:stdout</literal>).
544 At least one socket unit defining such name must be explicitly provided via the
545 <varname>Sockets=</varname> option, and file descriptor name may differ
546 from the name of its containing socket unit.
547 If multiple matches are found, the first one will be used.
548 See <varname>FileDescriptorName=</varname> in
549 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
550 for more details about named descriptors and ordering.</para>
551
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553 kernel log buffer, the unit will implicitly gain a dependency of type <varname>After=</varname> on
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555
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556 <para>This setting defaults to the value set with
557 <option>DefaultStandardOutput=</option> in
558 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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560 this parameter might result in additional dependencies to be
561 added to the unit (see above).</para></listitem>
798d3a52 562 </varlistentry>
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565 <term><varname>StandardError=</varname></term>
566 <listitem><para>Controls where file descriptor 2 (STDERR) of
567 the executed processes is connected to. The available options
568 are identical to those of <varname>StandardOutput=</varname>,
52c239d7 569 with some exceptions: if set to <option>inherit</option> the
798d3a52 570 file descriptor used for standard output is duplicated for
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572 stream and will look by default for a descriptor named
573 <literal>stderr</literal>.</para>
574
575 <para>This setting defaults to the value set with
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577 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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579 this parameter might result in additional dependencies to be
580 added to the unit (see above).</para></listitem>
798d3a52 581 </varlistentry>
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583 <varlistentry>
584 <term><varname>TTYPath=</varname></term>
585 <listitem><para>Sets the terminal device node to use if
586 standard input, output, or error are connected to a TTY (see
587 above). Defaults to
588 <filename>/dev/console</filename>.</para></listitem>
589 </varlistentry>
590 <varlistentry>
591 <term><varname>TTYReset=</varname></term>
592 <listitem><para>Reset the terminal device specified with
593 <varname>TTYPath=</varname> before and after execution.
594 Defaults to <literal>no</literal>.</para></listitem>
595 </varlistentry>
596 <varlistentry>
597 <term><varname>TTYVHangup=</varname></term>
598 <listitem><para>Disconnect all clients which have opened the
599 terminal device specified with <varname>TTYPath=</varname>
600 before and after execution. Defaults to
601 <literal>no</literal>.</para></listitem>
602 </varlistentry>
603 <varlistentry>
604 <term><varname>TTYVTDisallocate=</varname></term>
605 <listitem><para>If the terminal device specified with
606 <varname>TTYPath=</varname> is a virtual console terminal, try
607 to deallocate the TTY before and after execution. This ensures
608 that the screen and scrollback buffer is cleared. Defaults to
609 <literal>no</literal>.</para></listitem>
610 </varlistentry>
611 <varlistentry>
612 <term><varname>SyslogIdentifier=</varname></term>
613 <listitem><para>Sets the process name to prefix log lines sent
614 to the logging system or the kernel log buffer with. If not
615 set, defaults to the process name of the executed process.
616 This option is only useful when
617 <varname>StandardOutput=</varname> or
618 <varname>StandardError=</varname> are set to
619 <option>syslog</option>, <option>journal</option> or
620 <option>kmsg</option> (or to the same settings in combination
621 with <option>+console</option>).</para></listitem>
622 </varlistentry>
623 <varlistentry>
624 <term><varname>SyslogFacility=</varname></term>
625 <listitem><para>Sets the syslog facility to use when logging
626 to syslog. One of <option>kern</option>,
627 <option>user</option>, <option>mail</option>,
628 <option>daemon</option>, <option>auth</option>,
629 <option>syslog</option>, <option>lpr</option>,
630 <option>news</option>, <option>uucp</option>,
631 <option>cron</option>, <option>authpriv</option>,
632 <option>ftp</option>, <option>local0</option>,
633 <option>local1</option>, <option>local2</option>,
634 <option>local3</option>, <option>local4</option>,
635 <option>local5</option>, <option>local6</option> or
636 <option>local7</option>. See
637 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
638 for details. This option is only useful when
639 <varname>StandardOutput=</varname> or
640 <varname>StandardError=</varname> are set to
641 <option>syslog</option>. Defaults to
642 <option>daemon</option>.</para></listitem>
643 </varlistentry>
644 <varlistentry>
645 <term><varname>SyslogLevel=</varname></term>
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648 <option>emerg</option>,
649 <option>alert</option>,
650 <option>crit</option>,
651 <option>err</option>,
652 <option>warning</option>,
653 <option>notice</option>,
654 <option>info</option>,
655 <option>debug</option>. See
656 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
657 for details. This option is only useful when
658 <varname>StandardOutput=</varname> or
659 <varname>StandardError=</varname> are set to
660 <option>syslog</option> or <option>kmsg</option>. Note that
661 individual lines output by the daemon might be prefixed with a
662 different log level which can be used to override the default
663 log level specified here. The interpretation of these prefixes
664 may be disabled with <varname>SyslogLevelPrefix=</varname>,
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666 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
667
668 Defaults to
669 <option>info</option>.</para></listitem>
670 </varlistentry>
671
672 <varlistentry>
673 <term><varname>SyslogLevelPrefix=</varname></term>
674 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true and
675 <varname>StandardOutput=</varname> or
676 <varname>StandardError=</varname> are set to
677 <option>syslog</option>, <option>kmsg</option> or
678 <option>journal</option>, log lines written by the executed
679 process that are prefixed with a log level will be passed on
680 to syslog with this log level set but the prefix removed. If
681 set to false, the interpretation of these prefixes is disabled
682 and the logged lines are passed on as-is. For details about
683 this prefixing see
684 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
685 Defaults to true.</para></listitem>
686 </varlistentry>
687
688 <varlistentry>
689 <term><varname>TimerSlackNSec=</varname></term>
690 <listitem><para>Sets the timer slack in nanoseconds for the
691 executed processes. The timer slack controls the accuracy of
692 wake-ups triggered by timers. See
693 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>prctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
694 for more information. Note that in contrast to most other time
695 span definitions this parameter takes an integer value in
696 nano-seconds if no unit is specified. The usual time units are
697 understood too.</para></listitem>
698 </varlistentry>
699
700 <varlistentry>
701 <term><varname>LimitCPU=</varname></term>
702 <term><varname>LimitFSIZE=</varname></term>
703 <term><varname>LimitDATA=</varname></term>
704 <term><varname>LimitSTACK=</varname></term>
705 <term><varname>LimitCORE=</varname></term>
706 <term><varname>LimitRSS=</varname></term>
707 <term><varname>LimitNOFILE=</varname></term>
708 <term><varname>LimitAS=</varname></term>
709 <term><varname>LimitNPROC=</varname></term>
710 <term><varname>LimitMEMLOCK=</varname></term>
711 <term><varname>LimitLOCKS=</varname></term>
712 <term><varname>LimitSIGPENDING=</varname></term>
713 <term><varname>LimitMSGQUEUE=</varname></term>
714 <term><varname>LimitNICE=</varname></term>
715 <term><varname>LimitRTPRIO=</varname></term>
716 <term><varname>LimitRTTIME=</varname></term>
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718 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setrlimit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details on
719 the resource limit concept. Resource limits may be specified in two formats: either as single value to set a
720 specific soft and hard limit to the same value, or as colon-separated pair <option>soft:hard</option> to set
721 both limits individually (e.g. <literal>LimitAS=4G:16G</literal>). Use the string <varname>infinity</varname>
722 to configure no limit on a specific resource. The multiplicative suffixes K, M, G, T, P and E (to the base
723 1024) may be used for resource limits measured in bytes (e.g. LimitAS=16G). For the limits referring to time
724 values, the usual time units ms, s, min, h and so on may be used (see
725 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
726 details). Note that if no time unit is specified for <varname>LimitCPU=</varname> the default unit of seconds
727 is implied, while for <varname>LimitRTTIME=</varname> the default unit of microseconds is implied. Also, note
728 that the effective granularity of the limits might influence their enforcement. For example, time limits
729 specified for <varname>LimitCPU=</varname> will be rounded up implicitly to multiples of 1s. For
730 <varname>LimitNICE=</varname> the value may be specified in two syntaxes: if prefixed with <literal>+</literal>
731 or <literal>-</literal>, the value is understood as regular Linux nice value in the range -20..19. If not
732 prefixed like this the value is understood as raw resource limit parameter in the range 0..40 (with 0 being
733 equivalent to 1).</para>
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735 <para>Note that most process resource limits configured with
736 these options are per-process, and processes may fork in order
737 to acquire a new set of resources that are accounted
738 independently of the original process, and may thus escape
739 limits set. Also note that <varname>LimitRSS=</varname> is not
740 implemented on Linux, and setting it has no effect. Often it
741 is advisable to prefer the resource controls listed in
742 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
743 over these per-process limits, as they apply to services as a
744 whole, may be altered dynamically at runtime, and are
745 generally more expressive. For example,
746 <varname>MemoryLimit=</varname> is a more powerful (and
747 working) replacement for <varname>LimitRSS=</varname>.</para>
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750 per-user instance of
751 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>), these limits are
752 bound by (possibly more restrictive) per-user limits enforced by the OS.</para>
753
754 <para>Resource limits not configured explicitly for a unit default to the value configured in the various
755 <varname>DefaultLimitCPU=</varname>, <varname>DefaultLimitFSIZE=</varname>, … options available in
756 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and –
757 if not configured there – the kernel or per-user defaults, as defined by the OS (the latter only for user
758 services, see above).</para>
759
798d3a52 760 <table>
f4c9356d 761 <title>Resource limit directives, their equivalent <command>ulimit</command> shell commands and the unit used</title>
798d3a52 762
a4c18002 763 <tgroup cols='3'>
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764 <colspec colname='directive' />
765 <colspec colname='equivalent' />
a4c18002 766 <colspec colname='unit' />
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767 <thead>
768 <row>
769 <entry>Directive</entry>
f4c9356d 770 <entry><command>ulimit</command> equivalent</entry>
a4c18002 771 <entry>Unit</entry>
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773 </thead>
774 <tbody>
775 <row>
a4c18002 776 <entry>LimitCPU=</entry>
798d3a52 777 <entry>ulimit -t</entry>
a4c18002 778 <entry>Seconds</entry>
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779 </row>
780 <row>
a4c18002 781 <entry>LimitFSIZE=</entry>
798d3a52 782 <entry>ulimit -f</entry>
a4c18002 783 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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785 <row>
a4c18002 786 <entry>LimitDATA=</entry>
798d3a52 787 <entry>ulimit -d</entry>
a4c18002 788 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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790 <row>
a4c18002 791 <entry>LimitSTACK=</entry>
798d3a52 792 <entry>ulimit -s</entry>
a4c18002 793 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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795 <row>
a4c18002 796 <entry>LimitCORE=</entry>
798d3a52 797 <entry>ulimit -c</entry>
a4c18002 798 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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800 <row>
a4c18002 801 <entry>LimitRSS=</entry>
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a4c18002 803 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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805 <row>
a4c18002 806 <entry>LimitNOFILE=</entry>
798d3a52 807 <entry>ulimit -n</entry>
a4c18002 808 <entry>Number of File Descriptors</entry>
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810 <row>
a4c18002 811 <entry>LimitAS=</entry>
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a4c18002 813 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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815 <row>
a4c18002 816 <entry>LimitNPROC=</entry>
798d3a52 817 <entry>ulimit -u</entry>
a4c18002 818 <entry>Number of Processes</entry>
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820 <row>
a4c18002 821 <entry>LimitMEMLOCK=</entry>
798d3a52 822 <entry>ulimit -l</entry>
a4c18002 823 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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824 </row>
825 <row>
a4c18002 826 <entry>LimitLOCKS=</entry>
798d3a52 827 <entry>ulimit -x</entry>
a4c18002 828 <entry>Number of Locks</entry>
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830 <row>
a4c18002 831 <entry>LimitSIGPENDING=</entry>
798d3a52 832 <entry>ulimit -i</entry>
a4c18002 833 <entry>Number of Queued Signals</entry>
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835 <row>
a4c18002 836 <entry>LimitMSGQUEUE=</entry>
798d3a52 837 <entry>ulimit -q</entry>
a4c18002 838 <entry>Bytes</entry>
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840 <row>
a4c18002 841 <entry>LimitNICE=</entry>
798d3a52 842 <entry>ulimit -e</entry>
a4c18002 843 <entry>Nice Level</entry>
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845 <row>
a4c18002 846 <entry>LimitRTPRIO=</entry>
798d3a52 847 <entry>ulimit -r</entry>
a4c18002 848 <entry>Realtime Priority</entry>
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850 <row>
a4c18002 851 <entry>LimitRTTIME=</entry>
798d3a52 852 <entry>No equivalent</entry>
a4c18002 853 <entry>Microseconds</entry>
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855 </tbody>
856 </tgroup>
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859
860 <varlistentry>
861 <term><varname>PAMName=</varname></term>
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863 registered as a PAM session under the specified service name. This is only useful in conjunction with the
864 <varname>User=</varname> setting, and is otherwise ignored. If not set, no PAM session will be opened for the
865 executed processes. See <citerefentry
866 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>pam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
867 details.</para>
868
869 <para>Note that for each unit making use of this option a PAM session handler process will be maintained as
870 part of the unit and stays around as long as the unit is active, to ensure that appropriate actions can be
871 taken when the unit and hence the PAM session terminates. This process is named <literal>(sd-pam)</literal> and
872 is an immediate child process of the unit's main process.</para></listitem>
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874
875 <varlistentry>
876 <term><varname>CapabilityBoundingSet=</varname></term>
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879 process. See <citerefentry
880 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
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882 <constant>CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE</constant>, <constant>CAP_SYS_PTRACE</constant>. Capabilities listed will be
883 included in the bounding set, all others are removed. If the list of capabilities is prefixed with
884 <literal>~</literal>, all but the listed capabilities will be included, the effect of the assignment
885 inverted. Note that this option also affects the respective capabilities in the effective, permitted and
886 inheritable capability sets. If this option is not used, the capability bounding set is not modified on process
887 execution, hence no limits on the capabilities of the process are enforced. This option may appear more than
888 once, in which case the bounding sets are merged. If the empty string is assigned to this option, the bounding
889 set is reset to the empty capability set, and all prior settings have no effect. If set to
890 <literal>~</literal> (without any further argument), the bounding set is reset to the full set of available
891 capabilities, also undoing any previous settings. This does not affect commands prefixed with
892 <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem>
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896 <term><varname>AmbientCapabilities=</varname></term>
897
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899 process. Takes a whitespace-separated list of capability names, e.g. <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>,
900 <constant>CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE</constant>, <constant>CAP_SYS_PTRACE</constant>. This option may appear more than
901 once in which case the ambient capability sets are merged. If the list of capabilities is prefixed with
902 <literal>~</literal>, all but the listed capabilities will be included, the effect of the assignment
903 inverted. If the empty string is assigned to this option, the ambient capability set is reset to the empty
904 capability set, and all prior settings have no effect. If set to <literal>~</literal> (without any further
905 argument), the ambient capability set is reset to the full set of available capabilities, also undoing any
906 previous settings. Note that adding capabilities to ambient capability set adds them to the process's inherited
907 capability set. </para><para> Ambient capability sets are useful if you want to execute a process as a
908 non-privileged user but still want to give it some capabilities. Note that in this case option
909 <constant>keep-caps</constant> is automatically added to <varname>SecureBits=</varname> to retain the
910 capabilities over the user change. <varname>AmbientCapabilities=</varname> does not affect commands prefixed
911 with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem>
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913
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915 <term><varname>SecureBits=</varname></term>
916 <listitem><para>Controls the secure bits set for the executed
917 process. Takes a space-separated combination of options from
918 the following list:
919 <option>keep-caps</option>,
920 <option>keep-caps-locked</option>,
921 <option>no-setuid-fixup</option>,
922 <option>no-setuid-fixup-locked</option>,
923 <option>noroot</option>, and
924 <option>noroot-locked</option>.
b938cb90 925 This option may appear more than once, in which case the secure
798d3a52 926 bits are ORed. If the empty string is assigned to this option,
43eb109a 927 the bits are reset to 0. This does not affect commands prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.
cf677fe6 928 See <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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930 </varlistentry>
931
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934 <term><varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname></term>
935 <term><varname>InaccessiblePaths=</varname></term>
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938 access a process might have to the file system hierarchy. Each setting takes a space-separated list of paths
939 relative to the host's root directory (i.e. the system running the service manager). Note that if paths
940 contain symlinks, they are resolved relative to the root directory set with
941 <varname>RootDirectory=</varname>.</para>
942
943 <para>Paths listed in <varname>ReadWritePaths=</varname> are accessible from within the namespace with the same
944 access modes as from outside of it. Paths listed in <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> are accessible for
945 reading only, writing will be refused even if the usual file access controls would permit this. Nest
946 <varname>ReadWritePaths=</varname> inside of <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> in order to provide writable
947 subdirectories within read-only directories. Use <varname>ReadWritePaths=</varname> in order to whitelist
948 specific paths for write access if <varname>ProtectSystem=strict</varname> is used. Paths listed in
949 <varname>InaccessiblePaths=</varname> will be made inaccessible for processes inside the namespace (along with
950 everything below them in the file system hierarchy).</para>
951
952 <para>Note that restricting access with these options does not extend to submounts of a directory that are
953 created later on. Non-directory paths may be specified as well. These options may be specified more than once,
954 in which case all paths listed will have limited access from within the namespace. If the empty string is
955 assigned to this option, the specific list is reset, and all prior assignments have no effect.</para>
956
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959 ignored when they do not exist. If prefixed with <literal>+</literal> the paths are taken relative to the root
960 directory of the unit, as configured with <varname>RootDirectory=</varname>, instead of relative to the root
961 directory of the host (see above). When combining <literal>-</literal> and <literal>+</literal> on the same
962 path make sure to specify <literal>-</literal> first, and <literal>+</literal> second.</para>
963
964 <para>Note that using this setting will disconnect propagation of mounts from the service to the host
965 (propagation in the opposite direction continues to work). This means that this setting may not be used for
966 services which shall be able to install mount points in the main mount namespace. Note that the effect of these
967 settings may be undone by privileged processes. In order to set up an effective sandboxed environment for a
968 unit it is thus recommended to combine these settings with either
969 <varname>CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_ADMIN</varname> or
970 <varname>SystemCallFilter=~@mount</varname>.</para></listitem>
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972
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974 <term><varname>BindPaths=</varname></term>
975 <term><varname>BindReadOnlyPaths=</varname></term>
976
977 <listitem><para>Configures unit-specific bind mounts. A bind mount makes a particular file or directory
978 available at an additional place in the unit's view of the file system. Any bind mounts created with this
979 option are specific to the unit, and are not visible in the host's mount table. This option expects a
980 whitespace separated list of bind mount definitions. Each definition consists of a colon-separated triple of
981 source path, destination path and option string, where the latter two are optional. If only a source path is
982 specified the source and destination is taken to be the same. The option string may be either
983 <literal>rbind</literal> or <literal>norbind</literal> for configuring a recursive or non-recursive bind
98063016 984 mount. If the destination path is omitted, the option string must be omitted too.</para>
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986 <para><varname>BindPaths=</varname> creates regular writable bind mounts (unless the source file system mount
987 is already marked read-only), while <varname>BindReadOnlyPaths=</varname> creates read-only bind mounts. These
988 settings may be used more than once, each usage appends to the unit's list of bind mounts. If the empty string
989 is assigned to either of these two options the entire list of bind mounts defined prior to this is reset. Note
990 that in this case both read-only and regular bind mounts are reset, regardless which of the two settings is
991 used.</para>
992
993 <para>This option is particularly useful when <varname>RootDirectory=</varname> is used. In this case the
301a21a8 994 source path refers to a path on the host file system, while the destination path refers to a path below the
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995 root directory of the unit.</para></listitem>
996 </varlistentry>
997
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999 <term><varname>PrivateTmp=</varname></term>
1000
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1002 processes and mounts private <filename>/tmp</filename> and <filename>/var/tmp</filename> directories inside it
1003 that is not shared by processes outside of the namespace. This is useful to secure access to temporary files of
1004 the process, but makes sharing between processes via <filename>/tmp</filename> or <filename>/var/tmp</filename>
1005 impossible. If this is enabled, all temporary files created by a service in these directories will be removed
1006 after the service is stopped. Defaults to false. It is possible to run two or more units within the same
1007 private <filename>/tmp</filename> and <filename>/var/tmp</filename> namespace by using the
798d3a52 1008 <varname>JoinsNamespaceOf=</varname> directive, see
00d9ef85 1009 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
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1011 restrictions regarding mount propagation and privileges apply as for <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> and
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1013 <varname>After=</varname> dependencies on all mount units necessary to access <filename>/tmp</filename> and
1014 <filename>/var/tmp</filename>. Moreover an implicitly <varname>After=</varname> ordering on
1015 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1016 is added.</para></listitem>
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1018
1019 <varlistentry>
1020 <term><varname>PrivateDevices=</varname></term>
1021
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1023 only adds API pseudo devices such as <filename>/dev/null</filename>, <filename>/dev/zero</filename> or
1024 <filename>/dev/random</filename> (as well as the pseudo TTY subsystem) to it, but no physical devices such as
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1026 <filename>/dev/port</filename> and others. This is useful to securely turn off physical device access by the
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1028 I/O system calls that are grouped in the <varname>@raw-io</varname> set, will also remove
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1029 <constant>CAP_MKNOD</constant> and <constant>CAP_SYS_RAWIO</constant> from the capability bounding set for
1030 the unit (see above), and set <varname>DevicePolicy=closed</varname> (see
798d3a52 1031 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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1032 for details). Note that using this setting will disconnect propagation of mounts from the service to the host
1033 (propagation in the opposite direction continues to work). This means that this setting may not be used for
1034 services which shall be able to install mount points in the main mount namespace. The /dev namespace will be
1035 mounted read-only and 'noexec'. The latter may break old programs which try to set up executable memory by
1036 using <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mmap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> of
1037 <filename>/dev/zero</filename> instead of using <constant>MAP_ANON</constant>. This setting is implied if
1038 <varname>DynamicUser=</varname> is set. For this setting the same restrictions regarding mount propagation and
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1039 privileges apply as for <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> and related calls, see above.
1040 If turned on and if running in user mode, or in system mode, but without the <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>
1041 capability (e.g. setting <varname>User=</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname>
1042 is implied.
1043 </para></listitem>
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1045
1046 <varlistentry>
1047 <term><varname>PrivateNetwork=</varname></term>
1048
1049 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, sets up a
1050 new network namespace for the executed processes and
1051 configures only the loopback network device
1052 <literal>lo</literal> inside it. No other network devices will
1053 be available to the executed process. This is useful to
1054 securely turn off network access by the executed process.
1055 Defaults to false. It is possible to run two or more units
1056 within the same private network namespace by using the
1057 <varname>JoinsNamespaceOf=</varname> directive, see
1058 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1059 for details. Note that this option will disconnect all socket
1060 families from the host, this includes AF_NETLINK and AF_UNIX.
1061 The latter has the effect that AF_UNIX sockets in the abstract
1062 socket namespace will become unavailable to the processes
1063 (however, those located in the file system will continue to be
1064 accessible).</para></listitem>
1065 </varlistentry>
1066
1067 <varlistentry>
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1069
1070 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, sets up a new user namespace for the executed processes and
1071 configures a minimal user and group mapping, that maps the <literal>root</literal> user and group as well as
1072 the unit's own user and group to themselves and everything else to the <literal>nobody</literal> user and
1073 group. This is useful to securely detach the user and group databases used by the unit from the rest of the
1074 system, and thus to create an effective sandbox environment. All files, directories, processes, IPC objects and
2dd67817 1075 other resources owned by users/groups not equaling <literal>root</literal> or the unit's own will stay visible
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1077 all unit processes are run without privileges in the host user namespace (regardless if the unit's own
1078 user/group is <literal>root</literal> or not). Specifically this means that the process will have zero process
1079 capabilities on the host's user namespace, but full capabilities within the service's user namespace. Settings
1080 such as <varname>CapabilityBoundingSet=</varname> will affect only the latter, and there's no way to acquire
1081 additional capabilities in the host's user namespace. Defaults to off.</para>
1082
1083 <para>This setting is particularly useful in conjunction with <varname>RootDirectory=</varname>, as the need to
1084 synchronize the user and group databases in the root directory and on the host is reduced, as the only users
1085 and groups who need to be matched are <literal>root</literal>, <literal>nobody</literal> and the unit's own
1086 user and group.</para></listitem>
1087 </varlistentry>
1088
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1090 <term><varname>ProtectSystem=</varname></term>
1091
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1093 <literal>strict</literal>. If true, mounts the <filename>/usr</filename> and <filename>/boot</filename>
1094 directories read-only for processes invoked by this unit. If set to <literal>full</literal>, the
1095 <filename>/etc</filename> directory is mounted read-only, too. If set to <literal>strict</literal> the entire
1096 file system hierarchy is mounted read-only, except for the API file system subtrees <filename>/dev</filename>,
1097 <filename>/proc</filename> and <filename>/sys</filename> (protect these directories using
1098 <varname>PrivateDevices=</varname>, <varname>ProtectKernelTunables=</varname>,
1099 <varname>ProtectControlGroups=</varname>). This setting ensures that any modification of the vendor-supplied
1100 operating system (and optionally its configuration, and local mounts) is prohibited for the service. It is
1101 recommended to enable this setting for all long-running services, unless they are involved with system updates
1102 or need to modify the operating system in other ways. If this option is used,
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1104 setting is implied if <varname>DynamicUser=</varname> is set. For this setting the same restrictions regarding
1105 mount propagation and privileges apply as for <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> and related calls, see
1106 above. Defaults to off.</para></listitem>
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1108
1109 <varlistentry>
1110 <term><varname>ProtectHome=</varname></term>
1111
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1113 <filename>/home</filename>, <filename>/root</filename> and <filename>/run/user</filename> are made inaccessible
1114 and empty for processes invoked by this unit. If set to <literal>read-only</literal>, the three directories are
1115 made read-only instead. It is recommended to enable this setting for all long-running services (in particular
1116 network-facing ones), to ensure they cannot get access to private user data, unless the services actually
1117 require access to the user's private data. This setting is implied if <varname>DynamicUser=</varname> is
1118 set. For this setting the same restrictions regarding mount propagation and privileges apply as for
1119 <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> and related calls, see above.</para></listitem>
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1121
1122 <varlistentry>
1123 <term><varname>ProtectKernelTunables=</varname></term>
1124
1125 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, kernel variables accessible through
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1127 <filename>/proc/latency_stats</filename>, <filename>/proc/acpi</filename>,
1128 <filename>/proc/timer_stats</filename>, <filename>/proc/fs</filename> and <filename>/proc/irq</filename> will
1129 be made read-only to all processes of the unit. Usually, tunable kernel variables should only be written at
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1130 boot-time, with the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1131 mechanism. Almost no services need to write to these at runtime; it is hence recommended to turn this on for
1132 most services. For this setting the same restrictions regarding mount propagation and privileges apply as for
ac246d98 1133 <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> and related calls, see above. Defaults to off.
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1135 capability (e.g. setting <varname>User=</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname>
1136 is implied. Note that this option does not prevent kernel tuning through IPC interfaces
1137 and external programs. However <varname>InaccessiblePaths=</varname> can be used to
1138 make some IPC file system objects inaccessible.</para></listitem>
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1140
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1142 <term><varname>ProtectKernelModules=</varname></term>
1143
1144 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, explicit module loading will
1145 be denied. This allows to turn off module load and unload operations on modular
1146 kernels. It is recommended to turn this on for most services that do not need special
1147 file systems or extra kernel modules to work. Default to off. Enabling this option
1148 removes <constant>CAP_SYS_MODULE</constant> from the capability bounding set for
1149 the unit, and installs a system call filter to block module system calls,
1150 also <filename>/usr/lib/modules</filename> is made inaccessible. For this
1151 setting the same restrictions regarding mount propagation and privileges
1152 apply as for <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> and related calls, see above.
1153 Note that limited automatic module loading due to user configuration or kernel
1154 mapping tables might still happen as side effect of requested user operations,
1155 both privileged and unprivileged. To disable module auto-load feature please see
1156 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1157 <constant>kernel.modules_disabled</constant> mechanism and
1158 <filename>/proc/sys/kernel/modules_disabled</filename> documentation.
1159 If turned on and if running in user mode, or in system mode, but without the <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>
1160 capability (e.g. setting <varname>User=</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname>
1161 is implied.
1162 </para></listitem>
1163 </varlistentry>
1164
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1166 <term><varname>ProtectControlGroups=</varname></term>
1167
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1169 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>cgroups</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>) hierarchies
1170 accessible through <filename>/sys/fs/cgroup</filename> will be made read-only to all processes of the
1171 unit. Except for container managers no services should require write access to the control groups hierarchies;
1172 it is hence recommended to turn this on for most services. For this setting the same restrictions regarding
1173 mount propagation and privileges apply as for <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname> and related calls, see
1174 above. Defaults to off.</para></listitem>
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1176
1177 <varlistentry>
1178 <term><varname>MountFlags=</varname></term>
1179
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1181 <option>private</option>, which control whether mounts in the file system namespace set up for this unit's
7141028d 1182 processes will receive or propagate mounts and unmounts. See <citerefentry
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1184 details. Defaults to <option>shared</option>. Use <option>shared</option> to ensure that mounts and unmounts
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1186 to run processes so that none of their mounts and unmounts will propagate to the host. Use <option>private</option>
374e6922 1187 to also ensure that no mounts and unmounts from the host will propagate into the unit processes' namespace.
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1189 will be unmounted after the completion of the current command line of <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname>,
1190 <varname>ExecStartPost=</varname>, <varname>ExecStart=</varname>,
1191 and <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname>. Note that
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1193 unit's namespace, and thus keep the device busy. Note that the file system namespace related options
1194 (<varname>PrivateTmp=</varname>, <varname>PrivateDevices=</varname>, <varname>ProtectSystem=</varname>,
1195 <varname>ProtectHome=</varname>, <varname>ProtectKernelTunables=</varname>,
1196 <varname>ProtectControlGroups=</varname>, <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname>,
1197 <varname>InaccessiblePaths=</varname>, <varname>ReadWritePaths=</varname>) require that mount and unmount
1198 propagation from the unit's file system namespace is disabled, and hence downgrade <option>shared</option> to
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1200 </varlistentry>
1201
1202 <varlistentry>
1203 <term><varname>UtmpIdentifier=</varname></term>
1204
1205 <listitem><para>Takes a four character identifier string for
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1208 and wtmp entry for this service. This should only be
1209 set for services such as <command>getty</command>
1210 implementations (such as <citerefentry
1211 project='die-net'><refentrytitle>agetty</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
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1214 they were run by a <command>getty</command> process (see
1215 below). If the configured string is longer than four
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1216 characters, it is truncated and the terminal four characters
1217 are used. This setting interprets %I style string
1218 replacements. This setting is unset by default, i.e. no
1219 utmp/wtmp entries are created or cleaned up for this
1220 service.</para></listitem>
1221 </varlistentry>
1222
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1224 <term><varname>UtmpMode=</varname></term>
1225
1226 <listitem><para>Takes one of <literal>init</literal>,
1227 <literal>login</literal> or <literal>user</literal>. If
1228 <varname>UtmpIdentifier=</varname> is set, controls which
1229 type of <citerefentry
1230 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>utmp</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>/wtmp
1231 entries for this service are generated. This setting has no
1232 effect unless <varname>UtmpIdentifier=</varname> is set
1233 too. If <literal>init</literal> is set, only an
1234 <constant>INIT_PROCESS</constant> entry is generated and the
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1236 <command>getty</command>-compatible utmp/wtmp logic. If
1237 <literal>login</literal> is set, first an
a8eaaee7 1238 <constant>INIT_PROCESS</constant> entry, followed by a
6cd16034 1239 <constant>LOGIN_PROCESS</constant> entry is generated. In
b938cb90 1240 this case, the invoked process must implement a <citerefentry
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1242 utmp/wtmp logic. If <literal>user</literal> is set, first an
1243 <constant>INIT_PROCESS</constant> entry, then a
a8eaaee7 1244 <constant>LOGIN_PROCESS</constant> entry and finally a
023a4f67 1245 <constant>USER_PROCESS</constant> entry is generated. In this
b938cb90 1246 case, the invoked process may be any process that is suitable
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1248 <literal>init</literal>.</para></listitem>
1249 </varlistentry>
1250
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1252 <term><varname>SELinuxContext=</varname></term>
1253
1254 <listitem><para>Set the SELinux security context of the
1255 executed process. If set, this will override the automated
1256 domain transition. However, the policy still needs to
1257 authorize the transition. This directive is ignored if SELinux
1258 is disabled. If prefixed by <literal>-</literal>, all errors
43eb109a 1259 will be ignored. This does not affect commands prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.
cf677fe6 1260 See <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>setexeccon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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1262 </varlistentry>
1263
1264 <varlistentry>
1265 <term><varname>AppArmorProfile=</varname></term>
1266
1267 <listitem><para>Takes a profile name as argument. The process
1268 executed by the unit will switch to this profile when started.
1269 Profiles must already be loaded in the kernel, or the unit
1270 will fail. This result in a non operation if AppArmor is not
1271 enabled. If prefixed by <literal>-</literal>, all errors will
43eb109a 1272 be ignored. This does not affect commands prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem>
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1274
1275 <varlistentry>
1276 <term><varname>SmackProcessLabel=</varname></term>
1277
1278 <listitem><para>Takes a <option>SMACK64</option> security
1279 label as argument. The process executed by the unit will be
1280 started under this label and SMACK will decide whether the
b938cb90 1281 process is allowed to run or not, based on it. The process
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1283 executable has its own <option>SMACK64EXEC</option> label, in
1284 which case the process will transition to run under that
1285 label. When not specified, the label that systemd is running
1286 under is used. This directive is ignored if SMACK is
1287 disabled.</para>
1288
1289 <para>The value may be prefixed by <literal>-</literal>, in
1290 which case all errors will be ignored. An empty value may be
cf677fe6 1291 specified to unset previous assignments. This does not affect
43eb109a 1292 commands prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para>
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1294 </varlistentry>
1295
1296 <varlistentry>
1297 <term><varname>IgnoreSIGPIPE=</varname></term>
1298
1299 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If true, causes
1300 <constant>SIGPIPE</constant> to be ignored in the executed
1301 process. Defaults to true because <constant>SIGPIPE</constant>
1302 generally is useful only in shell pipelines.</para></listitem>
1303 </varlistentry>
1304
1305 <varlistentry>
1306 <term><varname>NoNewPrivileges=</varname></term>
1307
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1309 never gain new privileges through <function>execve()</function> (e.g. via setuid or setgid bits, or filesystem
1310 capabilities). This is the simplest and most effective way to ensure that a process and its children can never
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1313 <varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname>, <varname>SystemCallArchitectures=</varname>,
1314 <varname>RestrictAddressFamilies=</varname>, <varname>RestrictNamespaces=</varname>,
1315 <varname>PrivateDevices=</varname>, <varname>ProtectKernelTunables=</varname>,
1316 <varname>ProtectKernelModules=</varname>, <varname>MemoryDenyWriteExecute=</varname>, or
1317 <varname>RestrictRealtime=</varname> are specified.</para></listitem>
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1319
1320 <varlistentry>
1321 <term><varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname></term>
1322
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1324 executed by the unit processes except for the listed ones will result in immediate process termination with the
1325 <constant>SIGSYS</constant> signal (whitelisting). If the first character of the list is <literal>~</literal>,
1326 the effect is inverted: only the listed system calls will result in immediate process termination
1327 (blacklisting). If running in user mode, or in system mode, but without the <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>
1328 capability (e.g. setting <varname>User=nobody</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname> is
1329 implied. This feature makes use of the Secure Computing Mode 2 interfaces of the kernel ('seccomp filtering')
1330 and is useful for enforcing a minimal sandboxing environment. Note that the <function>execve</function>,
1331 <function>exit</function>, <function>exit_group</function>, <function>getrlimit</function>,
1332 <function>rt_sigreturn</function>, <function>sigreturn</function> system calls and the system calls for
1333 querying time and sleeping are implicitly whitelisted and do not need to be listed explicitly. This option may
1334 be specified more than once, in which case the filter masks are merged. If the empty string is assigned, the
1335 filter is reset, all prior assignments will have no effect. This does not affect commands prefixed with
1336 <literal>+</literal>.</para>
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1339 invocation. Specifically, access to the <function>execve</function> system call is required for the execution
1340 of the service binary — if it is blocked service invocation will necessarily fail. Also, if execution of the
1341 service binary fails for some reason (for example: missing service executable), the error handling logic might
1342 require access to an additional set of system calls in order to process and log this failure correctly. It
1343 might be necessary to temporarily disable system call filters in order to simplify debugging of such
1344 failures.</para>
1345
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1347 whitelisting and blacklisting), the first encountered will
1348 take precedence and will dictate the default action
1349 (termination or approval of a system call). Then the next
1350 occurrences of this option will add or delete the listed
1351 system calls from the set of the filtered system calls,
1352 depending of its type and the default action. (For example, if
1353 you have started with a whitelisting of
1354 <function>read</function> and <function>write</function>, and
1355 right after it add a blacklisting of
1356 <function>write</function>, then <function>write</function>
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1358
1359 <para>As the number of possible system
1360 calls is large, predefined sets of system calls are provided.
1361 A set starts with <literal>@</literal> character, followed by
1362 name of the set.
1363
1364 <table>
1365 <title>Currently predefined system call sets</title>
1366
1367 <tgroup cols='2'>
1368 <colspec colname='set' />
1369 <colspec colname='description' />
1370 <thead>
1371 <row>
1372 <entry>Set</entry>
1373 <entry>Description</entry>
1374 </row>
1375 </thead>
1376 <tbody>
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1378 <entry>@basic-io</entry>
1379 <entry>System calls for basic I/O: reading, writing, seeking, file descriptor duplication and closing (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>read</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>write</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and related calls)</entry>
1380 </row>
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1382 <entry>@clock</entry>
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1384 </row>
1385 <row>
1386 <entry>@cpu-emulation</entry>
1387 <entry>System calls for CPU emulation functionality (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>vm86</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> and related calls)</entry>
1388 </row>
1389 <row>
1390 <entry>@debug</entry>
1391 <entry>Debugging, performance monitoring and tracing functionality (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>ptrace</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>perf_event_open</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> and related calls)</entry>
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1394 <entry>@file-system</entry>
1395 <entry>File system operations: opening, creating files and directories for read and write, renaming and removing them, reading file properties, or creating hard and symbolic links.</entry>
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1398 <entry>@io-event</entry>
1f9ac68b 1399 <entry>Event loop system calls (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>poll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>select</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>epoll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>eventfd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> and related calls)</entry>
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1401 <row>
1402 <entry>@ipc</entry>
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1405 <row>
1406 <entry>@keyring</entry>
1407 <entry>Kernel keyring access (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>keyctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> and related calls)</entry>
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1409 <row>
1410 <entry>@module</entry>
d5efc18b 1411 <entry>Loading and unloading of kernel modules (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>init_module</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>delete_module</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> and related calls)</entry>
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1413 <row>
1414 <entry>@mount</entry>
d5efc18b 1415 <entry>Mounting and unmounting of file systems (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and related calls)</entry>
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1417 <row>
1418 <entry>@network-io</entry>
1f9ac68b 1419 <entry>Socket I/O (including local AF_UNIX): <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>unix</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry></entry>
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1421 <row>
1422 <entry>@obsolete</entry>
1f9ac68b 1423 <entry>Unusual, obsolete or unimplemented (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>create_module</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>gtty</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, …)</entry>
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1425 <row>
1426 <entry>@privileged</entry>
1f9ac68b 1427 <entry>All system calls which need super-user capabilities (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>)</entry>
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1429 <row>
1430 <entry>@process</entry>
d5efc18b 1431 <entry>Process control, execution, namespaceing operations (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>clone</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>namespaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>, …</entry>
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1433 <row>
1434 <entry>@raw-io</entry>
aa6b9cec 1435 <entry>Raw I/O port access (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>ioperm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>iopl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <function>pciconfig_read()</function>, …)</entry>
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1438 <entry>@reboot</entry>
1439 <entry>System calls for rebooting and reboot preparation (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>reboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <function>kexec()</function>, …)</entry>
1440 </row>
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1442 <entry>@resources</entry>
1443 <entry>System calls for changing resource limits, memory and scheduling parameters (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>setrlimit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>setpriority</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, …)</entry>
1444 </row>
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1446 <entry>@swap</entry>
1447 <entry>System calls for enabling/disabling swap devices (<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>swapon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>swapoff</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>)</entry>
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1450 </tgroup>
1451 </table>
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1454 added to the groups above. Contents of the sets may also change between systemd
1455 versions. In addition, the list of system calls depends on the kernel version and
1456 architecture for which systemd was compiled. Use
1457 <command>systemd-analyze syscall-filter</command> to list the actual list of system calls in
1458 each filter.
1459 </para>
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1461 <para>It is recommended to combine the file system namespacing related options with
1462 <varname>SystemCallFilter=~@mount</varname>, in order to prohibit the unit's processes to undo the
1463 mappings. Specifically these are the options <varname>PrivateTmp=</varname>,
1464 <varname>PrivateDevices=</varname>, <varname>ProtectSystem=</varname>, <varname>ProtectHome=</varname>,
1465 <varname>ProtectKernelTunables=</varname>, <varname>ProtectControlGroups=</varname>,
1466 <varname>ReadOnlyPaths=</varname>, <varname>InaccessiblePaths=</varname> and
1467 <varname>ReadWritePaths=</varname>.</para></listitem>
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1469
1470 <varlistentry>
1471 <term><varname>SystemCallErrorNumber=</varname></term>
1472
1473 <listitem><para>Takes an <literal>errno</literal> error number
1474 name to return when the system call filter configured with
1475 <varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname> is triggered, instead of
1476 terminating the process immediately. Takes an error name such
1477 as <constant>EPERM</constant>, <constant>EACCES</constant> or
1478 <constant>EUCLEAN</constant>. When this setting is not used,
1479 or when the empty string is assigned, the process will be
1480 terminated immediately when the filter is
1481 triggered.</para></listitem>
1482 </varlistentry>
1483
1484 <varlistentry>
1485 <term><varname>SystemCallArchitectures=</varname></term>
1486
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1488 include in the system call filter. The known architecture identifiers are the same
1489 as for <varname>ConditionArchitecture=</varname> described in
1490 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1491 as well as <constant>x32</constant>, <constant>mips64-n32</constant>,
1492 <constant>mips64-le-n32</constant>, and the special identifier
1493 <constant>native</constant>. Only system calls of the specified architectures will
1494 be permitted to processes of this unit. This is an effective way to disable
1495 compatibility with non-native architectures for processes, for example to prohibit
1496 execution of 32-bit x86 binaries on 64-bit x86-64 systems. The special
1497 <constant>native</constant> identifier implicitly maps to the native architecture
1498 of the system (or more strictly: to the architecture the system manager is
1499 compiled for). If running in user mode, or in system mode, but without the
1500 <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant> capability (e.g. setting
1501 <varname>User=nobody</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname> is
1502 implied. Note that setting this option to a non-empty list implies that
1503 <constant>native</constant> is included too. By default, this option is set to the
1504 empty list, i.e. no architecture system call filtering is applied.
1505 </para></listitem>
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1507
1508 <varlistentry>
1509 <term><varname>RestrictAddressFamilies=</varname></term>
1510
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1512 space-separated list of address family names to whitelist, such as <constant>AF_UNIX</constant>,
1513 <constant>AF_INET</constant> or <constant>AF_INET6</constant>. When prefixed with <constant>~</constant> the
1514 listed address families will be applied as blacklist, otherwise as whitelist. Note that this restricts access
1515 to the <citerefentry
1516 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> system call
1517 only. Sockets passed into the process by other means (for example, by using socket activation with socket
1518 units, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
1519 are unaffected. Also, sockets created with <function>socketpair()</function> (which creates connected AF_UNIX
1520 sockets only) are unaffected. Note that this option has no effect on 32-bit x86, s390, s390x, mips, mips-le,
1521 ppc, ppc-le, pcc64, ppc64-le and is ignored (but works correctly on other architectures, including x86-64). If
1522 running in user mode, or in system mode, but without the <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant> capability
1523 (e.g. setting <varname>User=nobody</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname> is implied. By default,
1524 no restrictions apply, all address families are accessible to processes. If assigned the empty string, any
1525 previous address familiy restriction changes are undone. This setting does not affect commands prefixed with
1526 <literal>+</literal>.</para>
1527
1528 <para>Use this option to limit exposure of processes to remote access, in particular via exotic and sensitive
1529 network protocols, such as <constant>AF_PACKET</constant>. Note that in most cases, the local
1530 <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> address family should be included in the configured whitelist as it is frequently
1531 used for local communication, including for
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1535
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1537 <term><varname>RestrictNamespaces=</varname></term>
1538
1539 <listitem><para>Restricts access to Linux namespace functionality for the processes of this unit. For details
1540 about Linux namespaces, see
1541 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>namespaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Either takes a
1542 boolean argument, or a space-separated list of namespace type identifiers. If false (the default), no
1543 restrictions on namespace creation and switching are made. If true, access to any kind of namespacing is
1544 prohibited. Otherwise, a space-separated list of namespace type identifiers must be specified, consisting of
1545 any combination of: <constant>cgroup</constant>, <constant>ipc</constant>, <constant>net</constant>,
1546 <constant>mnt</constant>, <constant>pid</constant>, <constant>user</constant> and <constant>uts</constant>. Any
1547 namespace type listed is made accessible to the unit's processes, access to namespace types not listed is
1548 prohibited (whitelisting). By prepending the list with a single tilda character (<literal>~</literal>) the
1549 effect may be inverted: only the listed namespace types will be made inaccessible, all unlisted ones are
1550 permitted (blacklisting). If the empty string is assigned, the default namespace restrictions are applied,
1551 which is equivalent to false. Internally, this setting limits access to the
1552 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>unshare</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1553 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>clone</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> and
1554 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setns</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> system calls, taking
1555 the specified flags parameters into account. Note that — if this option is used — in addition to restricting
1556 creation and switching of the specified types of namespaces (or all of them, if true) access to the
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1558 If running in user mode, or in system mode, but without the <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>
1559 capability (e.g. setting <varname>User=</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname>
1560 is implied.
1561 </para></listitem>
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1563
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1565 <term><varname>Personality=</varname></term>
1566
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1568 project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>uname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> shall report,
1569 when invoked by unit processes. Takes one of the architecture identifiers <constant>x86</constant>,
1570 <constant>x86-64</constant>, <constant>ppc</constant>, <constant>ppc-le</constant>, <constant>ppc64</constant>,
1571 <constant>ppc64-le</constant>, <constant>s390</constant> or <constant>s390x</constant>. Which personality
1572 architectures are supported depends on the system architecture. Usually the 64bit versions of the various
1573 system architectures support their immediate 32bit personality architecture counterpart, but no others. For
1574 example, <constant>x86-64</constant> systems support the <constant>x86-64</constant> and
1575 <constant>x86</constant> personalities but no others. The personality feature is useful when running 32-bit
1576 services on a 64-bit host system. If not specified, the personality is left unmodified and thus reflects the
1577 personality of the host system's kernel.</para></listitem>
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1579
1580 <varlistentry>
1581 <term><varname>RuntimeDirectory=</varname></term>
1582 <term><varname>RuntimeDirectoryMode=</varname></term>
1583
1584 <listitem><para>Takes a list of directory names. If set, one
1585 or more directories by the specified names will be created
1586 below <filename>/run</filename> (for system services) or below
1587 <varname>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</varname> (for user services) when
1588 the unit is started, and removed when the unit is stopped. The
1589 directories will have the access mode specified in
1590 <varname>RuntimeDirectoryMode=</varname>, and will be owned by
1591 the user and group specified in <varname>User=</varname> and
1592 <varname>Group=</varname>. Use this to manage one or more
1593 runtime directories of the unit and bind their lifetime to the
1594 daemon runtime. The specified directory names must be
1595 relative, and may not include a <literal>/</literal>, i.e.
1596 must refer to simple directories to create or remove. This is
1597 particularly useful for unprivileged daemons that cannot
1598 create runtime directories in <filename>/run</filename> due to
1599 lack of privileges, and to make sure the runtime directory is
1600 cleaned up automatically after use. For runtime directories
1601 that require more complex or different configuration or
1602 lifetime guarantees, please consider using
1603 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
1604 </varlistentry>
1605
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1607 <term><varname>MemoryDenyWriteExecute=</varname></term>
1608
1609 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If set, attempts to create memory mappings that are writable and
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1611 segments as executable are prohibited.
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1613 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mmap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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1615 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mprotect</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1616 system calls with <constant>PROT_EXEC</constant> set and
1617 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>shmat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1618 system calls with <constant>SHM_EXEC</constant> set. Note that this option is incompatible with programs
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1620 use of the code "trampoline" feature of various C compilers. This option improves service security, as it makes
1621 harder for software exploits to change running code dynamically.
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1623 capability (e.g. setting <varname>User=</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname>
1624 is implied.
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1626 </varlistentry>
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1629 <term><varname>RestrictRealtime=</varname></term>
1630
1631 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If set, any attempts to enable realtime scheduling in a process of
1632 the unit are refused. This restricts access to realtime task scheduling policies such as
1633 <constant>SCHED_FIFO</constant>, <constant>SCHED_RR</constant> or <constant>SCHED_DEADLINE</constant>. See
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1636 without the <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant> capability
1637 (e.g. setting <varname>User=</varname>), <varname>NoNewPrivileges=yes</varname>
1638 is implied. Realtime scheduling policies may be used to monopolize CPU time for longer periods
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1640 is hence recommended to restrict access to realtime scheduling to the few programs that actually require
1641 them. Defaults to off.</para></listitem>
1642 </varlistentry>
1643
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1645 </refsect1>
1646
1647 <refsect1>
1648 <title>Environment variables in spawned processes</title>
1649
1650 <para>Processes started by the system are executed in a clean
1651 environment in which select variables listed below are set. System
1652 processes started by systemd do not inherit variables from PID 1,
1653 but processes started by user systemd instances inherit all
1654 environment variables from the user systemd instance.
1655 </para>
1656
1657 <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
1658 <varlistentry>
1659 <term><varname>$PATH</varname></term>
1660
1661 <listitem><para>Colon-separated list of directories to use
1662 when launching executables. Systemd uses a fixed value of
1663 <filename>/usr/local/sbin</filename>:<filename>/usr/local/bin</filename>:<filename>/usr/sbin</filename>:<filename>/usr/bin</filename>:<filename>/sbin</filename>:<filename>/bin</filename>.
1664 </para></listitem>
1665 </varlistentry>
1666
1667 <varlistentry>
1668 <term><varname>$LANG</varname></term>
1669
1670 <listitem><para>Locale. Can be set in
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1673 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1674 and
1675 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>kernel-command-line</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
1676 </para></listitem>
1677 </varlistentry>
1678
1679 <varlistentry>
1680 <term><varname>$USER</varname></term>
1681 <term><varname>$LOGNAME</varname></term>
1682 <term><varname>$HOME</varname></term>
1683 <term><varname>$SHELL</varname></term>
1684
1685 <listitem><para>User name (twice), home directory, and the
8b89628a 1686 login shell. See
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1689 </varlistentry>
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1692 <term><varname>$INVOCATION_ID</varname></term>
1693
1694 <listitem><para>Contains a randomized, unique 128bit ID identifying each runtime cycle of the unit, formatted
1695 as 32 character hexadecimal string. A new ID is assigned each time the unit changes from an inactive state into
1696 an activating or active state, and may be used to identify this specific runtime cycle, in particular in data
1697 stored offline, such as the journal. The same ID is passed to all processes run as part of the
1698 unit.</para></listitem>
1699 </varlistentry>
1700
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1702 <term><varname>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</varname></term>
1703
1704 <listitem><para>The directory for volatile state. Set for the
1705 user <command>systemd</command> instance, and also in user
1706 sessions. See
1707 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pam_systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1708 </para></listitem>
1709 </varlistentry>
1710
1711 <varlistentry>
1712 <term><varname>$XDG_SESSION_ID</varname></term>
1713 <term><varname>$XDG_SEAT</varname></term>
1714 <term><varname>$XDG_VTNR</varname></term>
1715
1716 <listitem><para>The identifier of the session, the seat name,
1717 and virtual terminal of the session. Set by
1718 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pam_systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1719 for login sessions. <varname>$XDG_SEAT</varname> and
1720 <varname>$XDG_VTNR</varname> will only be set when attached to
1721 a seat and a tty.</para></listitem>
1722 </varlistentry>
1723
1724 <varlistentry>
1725 <term><varname>$MAINPID</varname></term>
1726
2dd67817 1727 <listitem><para>The PID of the unit's main process if it is
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1728 known. This is only set for control processes as invoked by
1729 <varname>ExecReload=</varname> and similar. </para></listitem>
1730 </varlistentry>
1731
1732 <varlistentry>
1733 <term><varname>$MANAGERPID</varname></term>
1734
1735 <listitem><para>The PID of the user <command>systemd</command>
1736 instance, set for processes spawned by it. </para></listitem>
1737 </varlistentry>
1738
1739 <varlistentry>
1740 <term><varname>$LISTEN_FDS</varname></term>
1741 <term><varname>$LISTEN_PID</varname></term>
5c019cf2 1742 <term><varname>$LISTEN_FDNAMES</varname></term>
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1743
1744 <listitem><para>Information about file descriptors passed to a
1745 service for socket activation. See
1746 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_listen_fds</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1747 </para></listitem>
1748 </varlistentry>
1749
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1751 <term><varname>$NOTIFY_SOCKET</varname></term>
1752
1753 <listitem><para>The socket
1754 <function>sd_notify()</function> talks to. See
1755 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_notify</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1756 </para></listitem>
1757 </varlistentry>
1758
1759 <varlistentry>
1760 <term><varname>$WATCHDOG_PID</varname></term>
1761 <term><varname>$WATCHDOG_USEC</varname></term>
1762
1763 <listitem><para>Information about watchdog keep-alive notifications. See
1764 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_watchdog_enabled</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1765 </para></listitem>
1766 </varlistentry>
1767
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1768 <varlistentry>
1769 <term><varname>$TERM</varname></term>
1770
1771 <listitem><para>Terminal type, set only for units connected to
1772 a terminal (<varname>StandardInput=tty</varname>,
1773 <varname>StandardOutput=tty</varname>, or
1774 <varname>StandardError=tty</varname>). See
1775 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>termcap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
1776 </para></listitem>
1777 </varlistentry>
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1779 <varlistentry>
1780 <term><varname>$JOURNAL_STREAM</varname></term>
1781
1782 <listitem><para>If the standard output or standard error output of the executed processes are connected to the
1783 journal (for example, by setting <varname>StandardError=journal</varname>) <varname>$JOURNAL_STREAM</varname>
1784 contains the device and inode numbers of the connection file descriptor, formatted in decimal, separated by a
1785 colon (<literal>:</literal>). This permits invoked processes to safely detect whether their standard output or
1786 standard error output are connected to the journal. The device and inode numbers of the file descriptors should
1787 be compared with the values set in the environment variable to determine whether the process output is still
1788 connected to the journal. Note that it is generally not sufficient to only check whether
1789 <varname>$JOURNAL_STREAM</varname> is set at all as services might invoke external processes replacing their
1790 standard output or standard error output, without unsetting the environment variable.</para>
1791
1792 <para>This environment variable is primarily useful to allow services to optionally upgrade their used log
1793 protocol to the native journal protocol (using
1794 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> and other
1795 functions) if their standard output or standard error output is connected to the journal anyway, thus enabling
1796 delivery of structured metadata along with logged messages.</para></listitem>
1797 </varlistentry>
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1799 <varlistentry>
1800 <term><varname>$SERVICE_RESULT</varname></term>
1801
1802 <listitem><para>Only defined for the service unit type, this environment variable is passed to all
1803 <varname>ExecStop=</varname> and <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname> processes, and encodes the service
e0c7d5f7 1804 "result". Currently, the following values are defined: <literal>protocol</literal> (in case of a protocol
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1805 violation; if a service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration), <literal>timeout</literal>
1806 (in case of an operation timeout), <literal>exit-code</literal> (if a service process exited with a non-zero
1807 exit code; see <varname>$EXIT_CODE</varname> below for the actual exit code returned), <literal>signal</literal>
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1808 (if a service process was terminated abnormally by a signal; see <varname>$EXIT_CODE</varname> below for the
1809 actual signal used for the termination), <literal>core-dump</literal> (if a service process terminated
1810 abnormally and dumped core), <literal>watchdog</literal> (if the watchdog keep-alive ping was enabled for the
1811 service but it missed the deadline), or <literal>resources</literal> (a catch-all condition in case a system
1812 operation failed).</para>
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1813
1814 <para>This environment variable is useful to monitor failure or successful termination of a service. Even
1815 though this variable is available in both <varname>ExecStop=</varname> and <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname>, it
1816 is usually a better choice to place monitoring tools in the latter, as the former is only invoked for services
1817 that managed to start up correctly, and the latter covers both services that failed during their start-up and
1818 those which failed during their runtime.</para></listitem>
1819 </varlistentry>
1820
1821 <varlistentry>
1822 <term><varname>$EXIT_CODE</varname></term>
1823 <term><varname>$EXIT_STATUS</varname></term>
1824
1825 <listitem><para>Only defined for the service unit type, these environment variables are passed to all
1826 <varname>ExecStop=</varname>, <varname>ExecStopPost=</varname> processes and contain exit status/code
1827 information of the main process of the service. For the precise definition of the exit code and status, see
1828 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wait</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>. <varname>$EXIT_CODE</varname>
1829 is one of <literal>exited</literal>, <literal>killed</literal>,
1830 <literal>dumped</literal>. <varname>$EXIT_STATUS</varname> contains the numeric exit code formatted as string
1831 if <varname>$EXIT_CODE</varname> is <literal>exited</literal>, and the signal name in all other cases. Note
1832 that these environment variables are only set if the service manager succeeded to start and identify the main
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1833 process of the service.</para>
1834
1835 <table>
1836 <title>Summary of possible service result variable values</title>
1837 <tgroup cols='3'>
1838 <colspec colname='result' />
e64e1bfd 1839 <colspec colname='code' />
a4e26faf 1840 <colspec colname='status' />
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1841 <thead>
1842 <row>
1843 <entry><varname>$SERVICE_RESULT</varname></entry>
e64e1bfd 1844 <entry><varname>$EXIT_CODE</varname></entry>
a4e26faf 1845 <entry><varname>$EXIT_STATUS</varname></entry>
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1846 </row>
1847 </thead>
1848
1849 <tbody>
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1850 <row>
1851 <entry morerows="1" valign="top"><literal>protocol</literal></entry>
1852 <entry valign="top">not set</entry>
1853 <entry>not set</entry>
1854 </row>
1855 <row>
1856 <entry><literal>exited</literal></entry>
1857 <entry><literal>0</literal></entry>
1858 </row>
1859
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1860 <row>
1861 <entry morerows="1" valign="top"><literal>timeout</literal></entry>
1862 <entry valign="top"><literal>killed</literal></entry>
6757c06a 1863 <entry><literal>TERM</literal>, <literal>KILL</literal></entry>
29df65f9 1864 </row>
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1865 <row>
1866 <entry valign="top"><literal>exited</literal></entry>
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1867 <entry><literal>0</literal>, <literal>1</literal>, <literal>2</literal>, <literal
1868 >3</literal>, …, <literal>255</literal></entry>
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1869 </row>
1870
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1871 <row>
1872 <entry valign="top"><literal>exit-code</literal></entry>
1873 <entry valign="top"><literal>exited</literal></entry>
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1874 <entry><literal>0</literal>, <literal>1</literal>, <literal>2</literal>, <literal
1875 >3</literal>, …, <literal>255</literal></entry>
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1876 </row>
1877
1878 <row>
1879 <entry valign="top"><literal>signal</literal></entry>
1880 <entry valign="top"><literal>killed</literal></entry>
6757c06a 1881 <entry><literal>HUP</literal>, <literal>INT</literal>, <literal>KILL</literal>, …</entry>
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1882 </row>
1883
1884 <row>
1885 <entry valign="top"><literal>core-dump</literal></entry>
1886 <entry valign="top"><literal>dumped</literal></entry>
6757c06a 1887 <entry><literal>ABRT</literal>, <literal>SEGV</literal>, <literal>QUIT</literal>, …</entry>
e64e1bfd 1888 </row>
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1890 <row>
1891 <entry morerows="2" valign="top"><literal>watchdog</literal></entry>
1892 <entry><literal>dumped</literal></entry>
1893 <entry><literal>ABRT</literal></entry>
1894 </row>
1895 <row>
1896 <entry><literal>killed</literal></entry>
6757c06a 1897 <entry><literal>TERM</literal>, <literal>KILL</literal></entry>
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1898 </row>
1899 <row>
1900 <entry><literal>exited</literal></entry>
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1901 <entry><literal>0</literal>, <literal>1</literal>, <literal>2</literal>, <literal
1902 >3</literal>, …, <literal>255</literal></entry>
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1903 </row>
1904
1905 <row>
1906 <entry><literal>resources</literal></entry>
1907 <entry>any of the above</entry>
1908 <entry>any of the above</entry>
1909 </row>
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1910
1911 <row>
1912 <entry namest="results" nameend="code">Note: the process may be also terminated by a signal not sent by systemd. In particular the process may send an arbitrary signal to itself in a handler for any of the non-maskable signals. Nevertheless, in the <literal>timeout</literal> and <literal>watchdog</literal> rows above only the signals that systemd sends have been included.</entry>
1913 </row>
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1914 </tbody>
1915 </tgroup>
1916 </table>
1917
1918 </listitem>
1919 </varlistentry>
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1920 </variablelist>
1921
1922 <para>Additional variables may be configured by the following
1923 means: for processes spawned in specific units, use the
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1925 and <varname>PassEnvironment=</varname> options above; to specify
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1926 variables globally, use <varname>DefaultEnvironment=</varname>
1927 (see
1928 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-system.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
1929 or the kernel option <varname>systemd.setenv=</varname> (see
1930 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
1931 Additional variables may also be set through PAM,
1932 cf. <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>pam_env</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
1933 </refsect1>
1934
1935 <refsect1>
1936 <title>See Also</title>
1937 <para>
1938 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1939 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
869feb33 1940 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-analyze</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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1941 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1942 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1943 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1944 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1945 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1946 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1947 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.kill</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1948 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
a4c18002 1949 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.time</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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1950 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1951 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
1952 <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
1953 </para>
1954 </refsect1>
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