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ubuntu systemd user-services bash

I'm working on a personal project and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with I recently switched to I'm working on a personal project and I'm trying to run a user service on Ubuntu 22.04 that is supposed to monitor changes in my `~/Documents` directory and log them to a file. However, I keep working with a 'Permission Denied' behavior when the service attempts to access the directory. My `~/.config/systemd/user/my-monitor.service` file looks like this: ```ini [Unit] Description=Document Changes Monitor [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/inotifywait -m -e modify,create,delete ~/Documents StandardOutput=append:/home/user/document_changes.log User=user [Install] WantedBy=default.target ``` I've enabled the service with `systemctl --user enable my-monitor.service` and started it using `systemctl --user start my-monitor.service`, but here’s the behavior I see in the logs: ```text my-monitor.service: Failed to start: Permission denied ``` I’ve checked the permissions on `~/Documents` and they seem fine: ```bash ls -ld ~/Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Oct 20 10:00 /home/user/Documents ``` I also tried running the service as a different user and got the same result. Additionally, I ensured that `systemd` is configured to allow user services by checking that `DefaultUser` is set properly in the `/etc/systemd/user.conf` file. I can run the command manually in the terminal without any issues, so it seems to be specifically related to the user service execution context. Is there something I'm missing in the configuration, or a different way I should structure the service file to avoid this permission scenario? This is part of a larger web app I'm building. Any ideas what could be causing this? My team is using Bash for this CLI tool. Any ideas what could be causing this? The project is a web app built with Bash. Am I missing something obvious? I'm on Windows 11 using the latest version of Bash.