Add user to systemd-journal group so journalctl --user works#5050
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Adds a boot script that adds the default user to the "systemd-journal" group on systemd-based distributions, so that `journalctl --user` works out of the box instead of failing with "No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions". The "systemd-journal" group only exists on systemd-based distributions, so the script guards on its existence with getent and is a no-op elsewhere (e.g. Alpine). Fixes lima-vm#5047 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <[email protected]>
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Adds a boot script that adds the default user to the "systemd-journal" group on systemd-based distributions, so that
journalctl --userworks out of the box instead of failing with "No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions".The "systemd-journal" group only exists on systemd-based distributions, so the script guards on its existence with getent and is a no-op elsewhere (e.g. Alpine).
Fixes #5047
Note: used Claude