Systemd: unknown lvalue 'User' in section 'Unit'

Question

A couple weeks a go I moved from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and found my Upstart script no longer worked, so feeling adventurous I managed to create a Systemd script that worked instead.

But I'm having a couple issues still.

[/etc/systemd/system/ss13_server.service:3] Unknown lvalue 'User' in section 'Unit'

This is my Systemd Script:

[Unit]
Description=ss13_server
User=ss13
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/ss13/ss13
ExecStart=/usr/local/byond/bin/DreamDaemon /home/ss13/ss13/baystation12.dmb 25565 -trusted
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=90s

It is meant to run the command /usr/local/byond/bin/DreamDaemon /home/ss13/ss13/baystation12.dmb 25565 -trusted within /home/ss13/ss13 as the user ss13 and then rerun that command if the process dies.

As far as I can tell it does that pretty well, except for the error [/etc/systemd/system/ss13_server.service:3] Unknown lvalue 'User' in section 'Unit'

Which leads me to suspect it is not running as the correct user.

I used a website that shows the commands from upstart and the alternatives for systemd and the correct area they go into.

Anyway, any help is useful, Thanks!

Answer 1

User should be in section [Service].