RFE: persistence of rhproxy after logging out

[RadekBiba]

As a non-root user who launched rhproxy in my login shell, I can currently only run rhproxy while I'm the login shell is running. The service gets killed soon after I log out.

Please enhance the rhproxy installation by allowing the service to survive logging out. To achieve that, Alberto mentioned the following command:

$ loginctl enable-linger

[abellotti]

I just created a simple user (not a member of wheel) and run without the user I got the following:

[aab@aab-dsc ~]$ loginctl enable-linger 
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.login1.set-user-linger ====
Authentication is required to run programs as a non-logged-in user.
Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
 1.  Alberto Bellotti (abellotti)
 2.  Discovery Admin (dscadmin)
Choose identity to authenticate as (1-2):

Whereas running it with the user worked fine (and not needing sudo either).

[aab@aab-dsc ~]$ loginctl enable-linger aab
[aab@aab-dsc ~]$ loginctl user-status aab
aab (1003)
           Since: Fri 2024-10-25 13:01:24 EDT; 1min 30s ago
           State: lingering
          Linger: yes
            Unit: user-1003.slice
                  └─[email protected]
                    └─init.scope
                      ├─233846 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
                      └─233848 "(sd-pam)"
[aab@aab-dsc ~]$ 

For the rhproxy helper, I'll go ahead and add the following for rhproxy install

$ loginctl enable-linger $USER

and the following for rhproxy uninstall

$ loginctl disable-linger $USER

[abellotti]

actually loginctl enable-linger and loginctl disable-linger also work without $USER if logging in directly to the box. If one su - to the user from another account, the $USER is needed. So specifying $USER would handle both cases.