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In my over twenty years of using Linux, this is the first I had heard of "accounts-daemon", and I'm the kind of nerd who browses repositories for fun, looking f
by npsimons 6y ago
In my over twenty years of using Linux, this is the first I had heard of "accounts-daemon", and I'm the kind of nerd who browses repositories for fun, looking for new and interesting packages.
So I googled "accounts-daemon", and these are the titles for the first three results:
1. "What does accounts-daemon actually do?"
2. "Should I disable accounts-daemon?"
3. "Process accounts-daemon taking 100% of CPU."
Not reassuring indeed.
- jasonjayr 6y agoIt's from the freedesktop folks. (Like systemd, dbus, pulseaudio, and all sorts of other services to make linux more 'desktop' friendly)
- npsimons 6y agoYeah, that's a windmill I've given up tilting at. And it has gotten better, but mostly through painful learning experiences like this one. But some days I wonder if I'd just be better off moving to OpenBSD or heck Plan 9 or Inferno.
- 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago> OpenBSD Use a Thinkpad that's not too new? OK without 802.11ac and Bluetooth? Come take a dip, the water is just fine.
- mrguyorama 6y agoWait, why can't OpenBSD handle Bluetooth? Is it just that the same chip is used for both wireless protocols and it doesn't support them yet?
- 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y agoNot a hardware issue, but a protocol issue. It used to be supported for limited devices (mostly HID) but the implementation was poorly designed and overly complicated. It was pulled out in 5.6 and its absence has not annoyed a developer enough to replace it.
- lmm 6y agoI switched to FreeBSD and haven't looked back - from an admin perspective it's very much like 2000s-era Linux. Less stuff works by magic, but once you configure something right it stays configured right.
- na85 6y ago>OpenBSD Don't bother. OpenBSD's performance is atrocious. I hear dragonflyBSD actually has first-class multiprocessor support, and have always wanted to try it out.
- carapace 6y agoSoftware in different security tiers shouldn't be compared on the basis of performance. I don't care if my OS is faster if it's being used to compromise my systems, eh? It's like, if you take the armor off a tank it will go faster, sure, but don't ride it into battle.
- na85 6y agoI don't think the OpenBSD security claim is as great as it sounds. Unless you are only running sshd and pf, you are beyond their "default install" and heavily into packages and ports. Is gnome 3 on OpenBSD significantly more secure than on Linux? I very much doubt it.
- carapace 6y agoI dare you to go ask that on the OpenBSD mailing list. No seriously. I don't know. I'd like to know. We don't have to speculate and bloviate. Go ask them. https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
- Jasper_ 6y agoIt's accountsservice: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservi... It's an API and associated service daemon to add/remove/modify users, since Linux does not have one of those. (except forking out to useradd/usermod/userdel, except on Debian where they supply the adduser/rmuser commands instead, because consistency is for chumps, I guess)
- teddyh 6y agoNot “instead”. The adduser/rmuser commands are in addition to useradd/usermod/userdel, which are more low-level.
- VMG 6y agobrowsed the repo 30s and found this commit https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/commit/435624d5c14ba8d2042b63d63aaf923803456768 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservi... Never delete the root filesystem when removing users Many, many user accounts use / as their home directory. If deleting these accounts with accountsservice, we should just ignore requests to delete the home dir, rather than trash the user's computer. Fixes #57
- pferde 6y agoSlightly off-topic, but why on Earth does something like this need to be written in C?