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as far as I know systemctl can only be executed by root. I don't know what do you want to achieve, but probably need to find another way to solve your issue.
systemd itself will always need root privileges to start, but there's such a thing as user services: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User
iirc the initial setup still requires root, though.
If you want to start a specific service as a user probably sudo can help you. But you still need to tell us what do you really need.
So I am trying to distribute a service with systemd to many clients and when they start the service with "systemctl start someService.service" I don't want them to be required to type in the root password and also the start/stop/restart mechanism to be safe - by that I mean that if the service is started and the user logs out from the console and enter as another user the service should be stopped
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