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://www.freedesktop.org/software/accountsservice/accountsservice-23.13.9.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 03dccfe1b306b7ca19743e86d118e64d
Download size: 621 KB
Estimated disk space required: 9.8 MB (add 0.5 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with tests)
GLib-2.82.4 (with GObject Introspection), Systemd-257 (runtime), and Vala-0.56.17
GTK-Doc-1.34.0 and xmlto-0.0.29
First, rename a directory whose presence prevents the build system from running if dbusmock-0.33.0 is not installed:
mv tests/dbusmock{,-tests}
Then fix a test script so that the new directory is found, and adapt it for Python 3.12.0 or later:
sed -e '/accounts_service\.py/s/dbusmock/dbusmock-tests/' \
-e 's/assertEquals/assertEqual/' \
-i tests/test-libaccountsservice.py
Fix one 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
Now adapt the shipped mocklibc copy to allow building the test suite with GCC 14 or later:
grep 'print_indent' ../subprojects/mocklibc-1.0/src/netgroup.c \
| sed 's/ {/;/' >> ../subprojects/mocklibc-1.0/src/netgroup.h &&
sed -i '1i#include <stdio.h>' \
../subprojects/mocklibc-1.0/src/netgroup.h
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 admin_group=adm: This
switch sets the group for administrator accounts.
-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-1.34.0).
-D vapi=false: This switch disables
building the vala bindings. Use it if you have not installed
Vala-0.56.17.
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)