Systemd user service not starting at boot even though lingering is enabled (user via NIS) Lingering has been enabled with loginctl enable-linger However, the user services do not start before logging in with the user. The services remain active when logging out again. Is something extra needed to make it work when the user is not in the /etc/passwd file, but provided via NIS ? The service is correctly added to the `default.target`, so this seems to be unrelated to Why doesn't my systemd user unit start at boot?

The issue was resolved by adding the user to the /etc/passwd file and not solely rely on NIS.