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.
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Download (HTTP): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/archive/26.26.9/accountsservice-26.26.9.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: eac46328f48acd37ab55bb74106f67ec
Download size: 660 KB
Estimated disk space required: 11 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with tests)
GLib-2.88.2 (with GObject Introspection), elogind-257.14, and Vala-0.56.19
GTK-Doc-1.36.1 and xmlto-0.0.29
First, Fix a test that fails if the en_IE.UTF-8 locale is not installed:
sed -i '/^SIMULATED_SYSTEM_LOCALE/s/en_IE.UTF-8/en_HK.iso88591/' tests/test-daemon.py
Install AccountsService by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup .. \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D admin_group=adm \
-D elogind=true \
-D systemdsystemunitdir=no
Build the package:
ninja
To test the package, issue ninja test.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-D docbook=true: This switch enables
building the D-Bus interface API documentation (needs xmlto-0.0.29).
-D gtk_doc=true: This switch enables
building the libaccountsservice API documentation (needs GTK-Doc-1.36.1).
-D vapi=false: This switch disables
building the vala bindings. Use it if you have not installed
Vala-0.56.19.
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
/usr/libexec)