Hello. I’ve installed Ignition 8.0.3 on Centos server and I can’t get the gateway service to start. It appears to be permissions issue but I’m attempting start the service as root. Here’s part of the message I get from journalctl…any insight is appreciated.
– Unit Ignition-Gateway.service has begun starting up.
Sep 09 14:16:14 PCNC110AIGTG01 ignition.sh[2696]: runuser: may not be used by non-root users
Sep 09 14:16:14 PCNC110AIGTG01 systemd[1]: Ignition-Gateway.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 09 14:16:14 PCNC110AIGTG01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Ignition-Gateway.
Try opening the ignition.sh file - I believe the default setup tries to run the gateway service as the literal user ignition - so you can either substitute a different username, or ensure ignition has the appropriate permissions/group memberships.
I put the ignition user in the wheel group and in the sudoers file I let the wheel group run all commands without a password. After that didn’t work I changed the RUN_AS_USER in ignition.sh to root and am still having the same problem. I’ve installed on Ubuntu before without issue so maybe there’s a nuance in CentOS that I’m missing?
Same behavior after disabling SELinux but thanks for the suggestion. I’ll poking at this later week.
I’d find the systemd unit file in /etc/systemd/system/ or wherever it got installed and check to see if there’s a User= entry.
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Thanks @Kevin.Herron! In the file /etc/systemd/system/Ignition-Gateway.service I set User=root and was able to start the service.
Everyone else, thanks for helping me narrow this down. I would have mentioned you by name but since I’m a new user the system won’t let me. 
Thanks again!
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