glfs/postlfs/security/accountsservice.xml

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  <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>

    &lfs70_built;

    <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="dbus-glib"/> and
    <xref linkend="polkit"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/> 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 \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/accountsservice \
            --localstatedir=/var &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <!-- actually, it's for the maintainer to check xml translations -->
    <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>--sysconfdir=/etc</parameter>: This parameter installs the
    configuration files into <filename class="directory">/etc</filename> instead
    of <filename class="directory">/usr/etc</filename>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib/accountsservice</parameter>: This
    parameter causes the libexec files to be installed in the preferred location
    of <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/accountsservice</filename> instead
    of <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename>.</para>

    <para><option>--enable-static=no</option>: This switch prevents the static
    libraries being installed.</para>

  </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,a}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/{include/accountsservice-1.0/act,lib/accountsservice,
        share/locale/{bg_BG/LC_MESSAGES,fa_IR/LC_MESSAGES}},
        /var/lib/AccountsService/{icons,users}</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,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains the <application>AccountsService</application> API
          functions.</para>
          <indexterm zone="accountsservice libaccountsservice">
            <primary sortas="c-libaccountsservice">libaccountsservice.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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