Run the Management Console service as a different user

By default, the Management Console service runs under the rslconsole user. You can configure it to run under the current user or a different account.

Run the Management Console service as the current user

To run the Management Console service as the current user:

1. Check the service's status, and if it's running, stop it:

   sudo systemctl stop resilio-connect-management-console
   

2. Start the service as the current user:

   sudo systemctl --user start resilio-connect-management-console
   

Run the Management Console service as a different user

To run the Management Console service 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 Management Console service:

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

2. Stop the Resilio Management Console service:

   sudo systemctl stop resilio-connect-management-console
   

3. Navigate to /etc/systemd/system/resilio-connect-management-console.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=resilioConsoleService
   Group=resilioConsoleService
   

5. Reload the unit files:

   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   

6. Start the Management Console service:

   sudo systemctl start resilio-connect-management-console