Hi! I’m using Plex Media Server, installed through official Debian repositories ( https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb ). I want to run PMS as other user (not plex) so I modified the file /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service to change the user and group, but on each upgra…

Systemd uses override.conf file. [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Customizing your Plex configuration on systemd based systems This information is intended for those systems where cat /proc/1/comm returns systemd. On systems which use Systemd (Ubuntu 16+, Fedora…

Thanks, I’m an old school Linux user and I see that I didn’t dig deep enough in systemd. I tried with sudo systemd edit plexmediaserver.service and worked well.

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Systemd uses override.conf file.

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