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c0balt on Aug 19, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: SystemD Service Hardening

> I'd love a reference since at least for every systemd version I've used, you're wrong.

I must've had it confused with StateDirectory[0]. Thank you for pointing my mistake out. That does make the library a bit less useful.

[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst... Table 2

TheDong on Aug 19, 2025 [–]

StateDirectory looks like it's also always the environment variable 'STATE_DIRECTORY', regardless whether it's a user or system unit, right?

    systemd-run -p StateDirectory=test -t sh -c 'echo $STATE_DIRECTORY'

works fine with both `--system` and `--user`, so seems like that's the same too.

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