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I need to restart a systemd service (running as root) every time a new user is created. I saw that some systems have a way to make an adduser hook but this isn't an option in RHEL8. What is the best (least invasive; most secure) way to do this?

Currently only thing I can think of is adding a script to /etc/profile.d but I'm not sure if there's a way to make it run scripts as root (without doing something insecure)

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  • What's the purpose of that? Why would you need to restart a service every time a new user is created? Commented Oct 9, 2023 at 16:21
  • Yeah honestly after looking into it more I now realize that user home directories are created at first login and not user creation... But still the adduser hook exists for a reason. Commented Oct 9, 2023 at 17:00
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    I'd thought adding it to /etc/profile.d would restart the service when a user logs in, not when the user is created. Commented Oct 9, 2023 at 17:31
  • Correct, but that's close enough in my case. Only problem is that I don't think those scripts get run as root Commented Oct 9, 2023 at 19:50

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