Re: Run weston as custom user and non-root

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM Gundlupet Raju, Sandeep
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to run weston as a custom user(non-weston user) and non-root
> on arm64 using scarthgap, I can modify
> /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/weston.service with username
> User=root, Group=video and then run as root user which works OOB, but
> end goal to run weston as custom user which belongs to video group.

I'm not sure why that wouldn't work other than maybe you also need to
change USERADD_PARAM in weston-init.bb?

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> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep
>