Allow `dietpi` user to remotely stop and start services

General Discussion
1

I have added a service via dietpi-services that I would like to be able to control via SSH e.g.

ssh dietpi@remote-machine 'dietpi-services stop myservice'

This works when issued with root credentials but obviously, that is not the answer. Is there a ‘best’ way to do this?

As of now, I have tried adding:

%dietpi ALL= NOPASSWD: /boot/dietpi/dietpi-services stop myservice

…to /etc/sudoers, but no luck:

[FAILED] DietPi-Services | Root privileges required. Please run the command with “sudo” or “G_SUDO”.

The reason that I use DietPi so much is that I am not massively familiar with Linux and so don’t know whether I am even going down the wrong rabbit-hole!

2

If you added a service with dietpi-services then it got added to /etc/systemd/system which will always be controlled by user root, I think you will always need sudo to run it.
However, you can run it as a regular user by adding usr and group to the service file.
There is a discussion here https://askubuntu.com/questions/1371102/running-systemd-service-as-user-rather-than-root

I have not tested this, please report back if it works as you want it.

The other option is to create a user service and run that, see above link.

3

Yes sudo would need to be added to the command.