Needed by: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788396

Which API calls have this problem?

(In reply to Robert Ancell from comment #2)
> Which API calls have this problem?

Each of the following methods on interface `org.freedesktop.Accounts.User` can fail with either `org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied` or `org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed`.

- `SetUserName`
- `SetRealName`
- `SetEmail`
- `SetLanguage`
- `SetXSession`
- `SetLocation`
- `SetHomeDirectory`
- `SetShell`
- `SetIconFile`
- `SetLocked`
- `SetAccountType`
- `SetPasswordMode`
- `SetPassword`
- `SetPasswordHint`
- `SetAutomaticLogin`

However, the libaccountsservice functions for those do methods intentionally discard the errors – just grep for “Note this function is synchronous and ignores errors.”

- act_user_get_login_history
- act_user_set_email
- act_user_set_language
- act_user_set_x_session
- act_user_set_location
- act_user_set_user_name
- act_user_set_real_name
- act_user_set_icon_file
- act_user_set_account_type
- act_user_set_password
- act_uset_set_password_hint // there is a typo in the doc comment btw
- act_user_set_password_mode
- act_user_set_locked
- act_user_set_automatic_login

honestly, at this point rather than improve the library api, i'd like to deprecate it, and encourage gdbuscodegen instead.  we should probably improve the daemon implementation to export objectmanager interface too

(In reply to Ray Strode [halfline] from comment #4)
> honestly, at this point rather than improve the library api, i'd like to
> deprecate it, and encourage gdbuscodegen instead.

Is there an issue for that?

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