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What the hell does accuntservice do, and why does ubuntu need a dedicated service for that? To clarify, do we really need a service (and an unsafe, exploitable
by ajsnigrutin 6y ago
What the hell does accuntservice do, and why does ubuntu need a dedicated service for that?
To clarify, do we really need a service (and an unsafe, exploitable one), to do something, we've been doing without it for years on all other distros.
- npsimons 6y agoI actually got a decent answer to this, from what appears to be a developer working on something in the FreeDesktop.org ecosystem: > Way better for writing gui apps against instead of wrapping suid binaries and parsing strings horribly. I would call that a laudable goal. Just seems like the design needs a deep security review.
- ecnahc515 6y agoThe unsafeness here was GDM, not accountservice.