Attachment 85915 Details for Bug 66608 – spec: briefly describe Name, Exec and User keys

[patch] spec: briefly describe Name, Exec and User keys

0004-spec-briefly-describe-Name-Exec-and-User-keys.patch (text/plain), 1.54 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2013-09-16 13:44:51 UTC

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Created: 2013-09-16 13:44:51 UTC

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>From 762596b3cc2e0e9504cead8a6c8a9113d075224b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:36:21 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH 4/4] spec: briefly describe Name, Exec and User keys
>
>Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66608
>---
> doc/dbus-specification.xml | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>index b89631a..2075b61 100644
>--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>@@ -4675,6 +4675,11 @@
>           <listitem><para>Comment format</para></listitem>
>         </itemizedlist>
> 
>+        Service description files must contain a
>+        <literal>D-BUS Service</literal> group with at least the keys
>+        <literal>Name</literal> (the well-known name of the service)
>+        and <literal>Exec</literal> (the command to be executed).
>+
>         <figure>
> 	  <title>Example service description file</title>
> 	  <programlisting>
>@@ -4685,6 +4690,14 @@
>           </programlisting>
> 	</figure>
>       </para>
>+
>+      <para>
>+        Additionally, service description files for the well-known system
>+        bus on Unix must contain a <literal>User</literal> key, whose value
>+        is the name of a user account (e.g. <literal>root</literal>).
>+        The system service will be run as that user.
>+      </para>
>+
>       <para>
>         When an application asks to start a service by name, the bus daemon tries to
>         find a service that will own that name. It then tries to spawn the
>-- 
>1.8.4.rc3
>

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