Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.1

Chapter 12. System Utilities

AccountsService-0.6.55

Introduction to AccountsService

The AccountsService package provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of those interfaces based on the usermod(8), useradd(8) and userdel(8) commands.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

Package Information

AccountsService Dependencies

Required

libgcrypt-1.9.2 and Polkit-0.118

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.66.1 and Systemd-247

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2 and xmlto-0.0.28

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/accountsservice

Installation of AccountsService

Install AccountsService by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd build &&

meson --prefix=/usr           \
            -Dadmin_group=adm \
            -Dsystemd=true    \
            .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dadmin_group=adm: This switch sets the group for administrator accounts.

-Ddocbook=true: This switch enables building the D-Bus interface API documentation.

Configuring AccountsService

To allow users in the adm group to be listed as Administrators, execute the following commands as the root user: 

cat > /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-adm.rules << "EOF"
polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
   return ["unix-group:adm"];
   });
EOF

Systemd Unit

To start the accounts-daemon daemon at boot, enable the previously installed systemd unit by running the following command as the root user: 

systemctl enable accounts-daemon

Contents

Installed Programs: accounts-daemon (library executable)
Installed Libraries: libaccountsservice.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/accountsservice-1.0, /usr/share/doc/accountsservice, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libaccountsservice, and /var/lib/AccountsService

Short Descriptions

accounts-daemon

is the AccountsService daemon

libaccountsservice.so

contains the AccountsService API functions

Last updated on 2021-02-21 17:43:43 -0800