Can't Start Container as a Service for a user

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Hi Community,

I created an Nginx container name "website. I want to start it as a service for the "hatred" user.

bb58924e9431  docker.io/library/nginx:latest  nginx -g daemon o...  47 hours ago  Up 2 seconds ago  0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp  website

I created directories in the user's home directory and user "hatred" is the owner of the directories.

/home/hatred/.config/systemd/user

Then I generated the service by using container id, I tried the name as well. Here is the command I used and got the below result.

#podman generate systemd --name bb58924e9431 --files --new
/home/hatred/.config/systemd/user/container-website.service

I verified the file got generated

[root@hatred user]# ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 770 Jul 26 20:56 container-website.service

Then I reloaded the daemon

.# systemctl --user daemon-reload

However when I try to start or enable the service I get "Failed to start container-website.service: Unit container-website.service not found. " or "Failed to enable unit: Unit file container-website.service does not exist." error.

#systemctl --user start container-website.service
Failed to start container-website.service: Unit container-website.service not found.

systemctl --user enable container-website.service
Failed to enable unit: Unit file container-website.service does not exist.

Here are the "container-website.service" file's contents.

# container-website.service
# autogenerated by Podman 4.0.2
# Tue Jul 26 20:56:59 MST 2022

[Unit]
Description=Podman container-website.service
Documentation=man:podman-generate-systemd(1)
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
RequiresMountsFor=%t/containers

[Service]
Environment=PODMAN_SYSTEMD_UNIT=%n
Restart=on-failure
TimeoutStopSec=70
ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f %t/%n.ctr-id
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run --cidfile=%t/%n.ctr-id --cgroups=no-conmon --rm --sdnotify=conmon --replace --name website -v /web:/usr/share/nginx/html:Z -d -p 8080:80 nginx:latest
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop --ignore --cidfile=%t/%n.ctr-id
ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/podman rm -f --ignore --cidfile=%t/%n.ctr-id
Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I created a service for the root and added it to the system directory, I was able to start that service as root, but the user's service is not getting started. Any idea how can I fix this issue?
Thank you for your help.

MS

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