I want to run monit as another user on Ubuntu 16.04, but it keeps prompting for a password. Seems policykit is new on Ubuntu 16.04. How could I put this service into the ignore authentication list?
My goal is that user1 would be able to run service monit start
and service monit stop
without getting a prompt for password.
Running it as root is not an option
[email protected]:~$ service monit start
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
Authentication is required to start 'monit.service'.
Authenticating as: root
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Failed to start monit.service: Access denied
See system logs and 'systemctl status monit.service' for details.
[email protected]:~$
[email protected]:~$ systemctl status monit.service
* monit.service - LSB: service and resource monitoring daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/monit; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Fri 2017-06-30 11:30:51 GMT; 6h ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/monit; bad; vendor preset: enabled) <- this line showing it's using init.d old file instead of new type of service file, so I can't just edit service file and point it to specific user.