Run the Agent service as a different user

By default, the Resilio Agent installed via a package manager, runs under the rslconsole user. You can configure it to run under a different account.

To run the Agent as a different user on Linux distributions with the systemd service manager, proceed as follows:

1. (Optional) Create a user and group to run the Resilio Agent service:

   $ sudo groupadd -r resilioAgentService  
   $ sudo useradd -g resilioAgentService -r -m -s /sbin/nologin resilioAgentService
   

2. Stop the Resilio Agent service:

   sudo systemctl stop resilio-agent
   

3. Navigate to /etc/systemd/system/resilio-agent.service.d (create the directory if it doesn't exist), and create the override.conf file.

4. Edit the override.conf file and add the following:

   [Service]  
   User=resilioAgentService
   Group=resilioAgentService
   Environment="AGENT_USER=resilioAgentService"
   Environment="AGENT_GROUP=resilioAgentService"
   

5. Reload the unit files:

   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   

6. Start the Resilio Agent service:

   sudo systemctl start resilio-agent