source: gnome/platform/accountsservice.xml@ 45f56ac

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  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY accountsservice-download-http
           "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/accountsservice/accountsservice-&accountsservice-version;.tar.xz">
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  <!ENTITY accountsservice-md5sum        "dbf4323b688a314b4bf76890ad6d5279">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-size          "352 KB">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-buildsize     "12 MB">
  <!ENTITY accountsservice-time          "0.1 SBU">
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<sect1 id="accountsservice" xreflabel="AccountsService-&accountsservice-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="accountsservice.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <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 these interfaces based on
      the usermod(8), useradd(8) and userdel(8) commands.
    </para>

    &lfs73_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="libxslt"/> and
      <xref linkend="polkit"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/> and
      <xref linkend="vala"/>
    </para>

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

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/accountsservice"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/accountsservice \
            --enable-admin-group=adm \
            --disable-static &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

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

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

  </sect2>

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

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

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

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          accounts-daemon
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libaccountsservice.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/accountsservice-1.0,
          /usr/lib/accountsservice,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libaccountsservice 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>

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