[eba70158] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY accountsservice-download-http
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[8dfc5c3] | 8 | "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/accountsservice/accountsservice-&accountsservice-version;.tar.xz">
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[eba70158] | 9 | <!ENTITY accountsservice-download-ftp " ">
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[048aa04] | 10 | <!ENTITY accountsservice-md5sum "6dae0b50b48abe61296c8ecf90068c1f">
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[9501a015] | 11 | <!ENTITY accountsservice-size "100 KB">
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[048aa04] | 12 | <!ENTITY accountsservice-buildsize "7.3 MB">
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[0ae4498] | 13 | <!ENTITY accountsservice-time "less than 0.1 SBU">
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[eba70158] | 14 | ]>
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| 15 |
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[51dfb3e] | 16 | <sect1 id="accountsservice" xreflabel="AccountsService-&accountsservice-version;">
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[eba70158] | 17 | <?dbhtml filename="accountsservice.html"?>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect1info>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>AccountsService-&accountsservice-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="accountsservice">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-AccountsService">AccountsService</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to AccountsService</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>
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| 33 | The <application>AccountsService</application> package provides a
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| 34 | set of <application>D-Bus</application> interfaces for querying
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| 35 | and manipulating user account information and an implementation
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| 36 | of those interfaces based on the usermod(8), useradd(8) and
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| 37 | userdel(8) commands.
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| 38 | </para>
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| 39 |
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[0ae4498] | 40 | &lfs111_checked;
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[eba70158] | 41 |
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| 42 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 43 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>
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| 46 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&accountsservice-download-http;"/>
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| 47 | </para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>
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| 51 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&accountsservice-download-ftp;"/>
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| 52 | </para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>
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| 56 | Download MD5 sum: &accountsservice-md5sum;
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| 57 | </para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>
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| 61 | Download size: &accountsservice-size;
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| 62 | </para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | <listitem>
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| 65 | <para>
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| 66 | Estimated disk space required: &accountsservice-buildsize;
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| 67 | </para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 | <listitem>
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| 70 | <para>
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| 71 | Estimated build time: &accountsservice-time;
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| 72 | </para>
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| 73 | </listitem>
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| 74 | </itemizedlist>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">AccountsService Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 79 | <para role="required">
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[51eb0bf] | 80 | <!--<xref linkend="libgcrypt"/> and-->
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[eba70158] | 81 | <xref linkend="polkit"/>
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| 82 | </para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 85 | <para role="recommended">
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| 86 | <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/> and
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[51dfb3e] | 87 | <phrase revision="sysv"><xref linkend="elogind"/></phrase>
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| 88 | <phrase revision="systemd"><xref linkend="systemd"/></phrase>
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[eba70158] | 89 | </para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 92 | <para role="optional">
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[a20845e7] | 93 | <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
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[eba70158] | 94 | <xref linkend="xmlto"/>
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[a20845e7] | 95 | <!-- I did not have gtk-doc installed this time, and it worked fine. -->
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[eba70158] | 96 | </para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 99 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/accountsservice"/>
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| 100 | </para>
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| 101 | </sect2>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 104 | <title>Installation of AccountsService</title>
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[048aa04] | 105 | <!-- fixed in 22.08.8
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[885bcd41] | 106 | <para revision="systemd">
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| 107 | First, fix an issue in the systemd unit that causes runtime issues:
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[048aa04] | 108 | <!-\- causes errors when trying to change the user's icon in g-c-c -\->
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[34623f0e] | 109 | </para>
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| 110 |
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[885bcd41] | 111 | <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/PrivateTmp/d' data/accounts-daemon.service.in</userinput></screen>
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[048aa04] | 112 | -->
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[eba70158] | 113 | <para>
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| 114 | Install <application>AccountsService</application> by running the following
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| 115 | commands:
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| 116 | </para>
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| 117 |
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[51dfb3e] | 118 | <screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &&
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[1575ce1] | 119 | cd build &&
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| 120 |
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[20f070d8] | 121 | meson --prefix=/usr \
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| 122 | --buildtype=release \
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| 123 | -Dadmin_group=adm \
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| 124 | -Delogind=true \
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| 125 | -Dsystemdsystemunitdir=no \
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| 126 | .. &&
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[51dfb3e] | 127 | ninja</userinput></screen>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &&
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| 130 | cd build &&
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| 131 |
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[20f070d8] | 132 | meson --prefix=/usr \
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| 133 | --buildtype=release \
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| 134 | -Dadmin_group=adm \
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| 135 | .. &&
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[a20845e7] | 136 | ninja</userinput></screen>
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[eba70158] | 137 |
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| 138 | <para>
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| 139 | This package does not come with a test suite.
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| 140 | </para>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <para>
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| 143 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 144 | </para>
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| 145 |
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[a20845e7] | 146 | <screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
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[eba70158] | 147 |
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| 148 | </sect2>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 151 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 152 |
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[20f070d8] | 153 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 154 | href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>
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| 155 |
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[eba70158] | 156 | <para>
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[a20845e7] | 157 | <parameter>-Dadmin_group=adm</parameter>: This switch sets
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[eba70158] | 158 | the group for administrator accounts.
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| 159 | </para>
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| 160 |
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[9a363500] | 161 | <para>
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[a20845e7] | 162 | <option>-Ddocbook=true</option>: This switch enables building
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[9a363500] | 163 | the D-Bus interface API documentation.
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| 164 | </para>
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[20f070d8] | 165 |
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[eba70158] | 166 | </sect2>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 169 | <title>Configuring AccountsService</title>
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| 170 |
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[4045ec3d] | 171 | <para>
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| 172 | To allow users in the adm group to be listed as Administrators,
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| 173 | execute the following commands as the
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| 174 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 175 | </para>
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| 176 |
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| 177 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cat > /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-adm.rules << "EOF"
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| 178 | <literal>polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
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| 179 | return ["unix-group:adm"];
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| 180 | });</literal>
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| 181 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 182 |
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[0c77adcb] | 183 | <sect3 id="accountsservice-init" revision="systemd">
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| 184 | <!-- <title><phrase revision="sysv">Boot Script</phrase>
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| 185 | <phrase revision="systemd">Systemd Units</phrase></title> -->
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| 186 | <title>Systemd Unit</title>
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[048aa04] | 187 | <!-- Automatically started by D-Bus when needed
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[51dfb3e] | 188 | <para revision="sysv">
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[eba70158] | 189 | To start the <command>accounts-daemon</command> daemon at boot,
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[51dfb3e] | 190 | install the
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| 191 | <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/accounts-daemon</filename> init script from
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| 192 | the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package
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| 193 | by running the following command as the
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| 194 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 195 | </para>
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[048aa04] | 196 |
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| 197 | <screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>make install-accounts-daemon</userinput></screen>
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[0c77adcb] | 198 | -->
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[048aa04] | 199 | <para>
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[51dfb3e] | 200 | To start the <command>accounts-daemon</command> daemon at boot,
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| 201 | enable the previously installed systemd unit
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| 202 | by running the following command as the
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[eba70158] | 203 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 204 | </para>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <indexterm zone="accountsservice accountsservice-init">
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| 207 | <primary sortas="f-accounts-daemon">accounts-daemon</primary>
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| 208 | </indexterm>
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| 209 |
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[048aa04] | 210 | <screen role="root"><userinput>systemctl enable accounts-daemon</userinput></screen>
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[eba70158] | 211 |
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| 212 | </sect3>
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| 213 |
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| 214 | </sect2>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 217 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 218 |
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| 219 | <segmentedlist>
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| 220 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 221 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 222 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <seglistitem>
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| 225 | <seg>
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[048aa04] | 226 | accounts-daemon (in
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| 227 | <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename>)
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[eba70158] | 228 | </seg>
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| 229 | <seg>
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| 230 | libaccountsservice.so
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| 231 | </seg>
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| 232 | <seg>
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| 233 | /usr/include/accountsservice-1.0,
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[048aa04] | 234 | /usr/share/accountsservice,
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| 235 | /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libaccountsservice (optional), and
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[eba70158] | 236 | /var/lib/AccountsService
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| 237 | </seg>
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| 238 | </seglistitem>
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| 239 | </segmentedlist>
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| 240 |
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| 241 | <variablelist>
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| 242 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 243 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 244 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 245 |
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| 246 | <varlistentry id="accounts-daemon">
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| 247 | <term><command>accounts-daemon</command></term>
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| 248 | <listitem>
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| 249 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 250 | is the <application>AccountsService</application> daemon
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[eba70158] | 251 | </para>
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| 252 | <indexterm zone="accountsservice accounts-daemon">
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| 253 | <primary sortas="b-accounts-daemon">accounts-daemon</primary>
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| 254 | </indexterm>
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| 255 | </listitem>
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| 256 | </varlistentry>
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| 257 |
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| 258 | <varlistentry id="libaccountsservice">
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| 259 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libaccountsservice.so</filename></term>
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| 260 | <listitem>
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| 261 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 262 | contains the <application>AccountsService</application> API functions
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[eba70158] | 263 | </para>
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| 264 | <indexterm zone="accountsservice libaccountsservice">
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| 265 | <primary sortas="c-libaccountsservice">libaccountsservice.so</primary>
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| 266 | </indexterm>
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| 267 | </listitem>
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| 268 | </varlistentry>
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| 269 |
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| 270 | </variablelist>
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| 271 |
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| 272 | </sect2>
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| 273 |
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| 274 | </sect1>
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