Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-24

Chapter 4. Security

AccountsService-0.6.20

Introduction to AccountsService

The AccountsService package provides a set of D-Bus 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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Package Information

AccountsService Dependencies

Required

libxslt-1.1.26 and polkit-0.105

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

gobject-introspection-1.32.1

Optional

xmlto-0.0.25

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 \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/accountsservice \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--libexecdir=/usr/lib/accountsservice: This parameter causes the libexec files to be installed in the preferred location of /usr/lib/accountsservice instead of /usr/libexec.

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

Contents

Installed Program: accounts-daemon
Installed Library: libaccountsservice.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/accountsservice-1.0, /usr/lib/accountsservice and /var/lib/AccountsService

Short Descriptions

accounts-daemon

is the AccountsService daemon.

libaccountsservice.so

contains the AccountsService API functions.

Last updated on 2012-05-07 22:05:37 +0000