Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 8.3

Chapter 12. System Utilities

AccountsService-0.6.50

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-8.3 platform.

Package Information

AccountsService Dependencies

Required

GTK-Doc-1.28 and Polkit-0.114

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.56.1 and Systemd-239

Optional

xmlto-0.0.28

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

Installation of AccountsService

Install AccountsService by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr            \
            --sysconfdir=/etc        \
            --localstatedir=/var     \
            --enable-admin-group=adm \
            --disable-static         &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

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

--enable-docbook-docs: This switch enables building the D-Bus interface API documentation.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Configuring AccountsService

Systemd Units

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 2018-08-30 12:27:14 -0700