source: general/sysutils/accountsservice.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY accountsservice-download-http
           "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/accountsservice/accountsservice-&accountsservice-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-md5sum        "03dccfe1b306b7ca19743e86d118e64d">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-size          "621 KB">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-buildsize     "9.8 MB (add 0.5 MB for tests)">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-time          "less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="accountsservice" xreflabel="AccountsService-&accountsservice-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="accountsservice.html"?>


  <title>AccountsService-&accountsservice-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="accountsservice">
    <primary sortas="a-AccountsService">AccountsService</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to AccountsService</title>

    <para>
      The <application>AccountsService</application> package provides a
      set of <application>D-Bus</application> interfaces for querying
      and manipulating user account information and an implementation
      of those interfaces based on the
      <ulink role='man' url='&man;usermod.8'>usermod(8)</ulink>,
      <ulink role='man' url='&man;useradd.8'>useradd(8)</ulink>, and
      <ulink role='man' url='&man;userdel.8'>userdel(8)</ulink> commands.
    </para>

    &lfs121_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&accountsservice-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&accountsservice-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &accountsservice-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &accountsservice-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &accountsservice-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &accountsservice-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">AccountsService Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <!--<xref linkend="libgcrypt"/> and-->
      <xref linkend="polkit"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      &gobject-introspection;,
      <phrase revision="sysv"><xref linkend="elogind"/></phrase>
      <phrase revision="systemd"><xref role='runtime' linkend="systemd"/>
        (runtime)</phrase>, and
      <xref linkend="vala"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
      <xref linkend="xmlto"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (for tests)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/> and
      <xref linkend="pygobject3"/>
      <!-- I did not have gtk-doc installed this time, and it worked fine. -->
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of AccountsService</title>

    <para>
      First, rename a directory whose presence prevents the build system from
      running if <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/> is not installed:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mv tests/dbusmock{,-tests}</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Then fix a test script so that the new directory is found, and adapt
      it for Python 3.12.0 or later:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e '/accounts_service\.py/s/dbusmock/dbusmock-tests/' \
    -e 's/assertEquals/assertEqual/'                      \
    -i tests/test-libaccountsservice.py</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Fix one test that fails if the <option>en_IE.UTF-8</option> locale
      is not installed:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/^SIMULATED_SYSTEM_LOCALE/s/en_IE.UTF-8/en_HK.iso88591/' tests/test-daemon.py</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>AccountsService</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup ..            \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -Dadmin_group=adm   \
      -Delogind=true      \
      -Dsystemdsystemunitdir=no &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup ..            \
      --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -Dadmin_group=adm   &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the package, issue <command>ninja test</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Dadmin_group=adm</parameter>: This switch sets
      the group for administrator accounts.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Ddocbook=true</option>: This switch enables building
      the D-Bus interface API documentation (needs <xref linkend="xmlto"/>).
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Dgtk_doc=true</option>: This switch enables building
      the libaccountsservice API documentation (needs
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>).
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Dvapi=false</option>: This switch disables building
      the vala bindings. Use it if you have not installed
      <xref linkend="vala"/>.
    </para>

  </sect2>

 <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring AccountsService</title>

    <para>
      To allow users in the adm group to be listed as Administrators,
      execute the following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-adm.rules &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
   return ["unix-group:adm"];
   });</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          accounts-daemon (in
          <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename>)
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libaccountsservice.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/accountsservice-1.0,
          /usr/share/accountsservice,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libaccountsservice (optional), and
          /var/lib/AccountsService
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="accounts-daemon">
        <term><command>accounts-daemon</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the <application>AccountsService</application> daemon
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="accountsservice accounts-daemon">
            <primary sortas="b-accounts-daemon">accounts-daemon</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libaccountsservice">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libaccountsservice.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>AccountsService</application> API functions
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="accountsservice libaccountsservice">
            <primary sortas="c-libaccountsservice">libaccountsservice.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>