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Expand Up @@ -135,6 +135,16 @@ services running when the user is not logged in. (Beware that the lingering user
instance of systemd does not automatically gain new privileges when you add the
to a new group. You might need to ``sudo loginctl terminate-user ...``.)

CMS depends on configured networking, but unfortunately, ``systemd`` does not allow
dependencies between user services and system services. A possible work-around is
to make system-wide ``user@UID.service`` (where ``UID`` is the user ID of the user
running CMS) depend on ``network-online.target`` by adding a drop-in configuration file
with::

[Unit]
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target


Recommended setup
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