| seatd-launch(1) | General Commands Manual | seatd-launch(1) |
seatd-launch - Start a process with its own seatd instance
seatd-launch [options] [--] command
-l <loglevel>
-h
-v
seatd-launch starts a seatd instance with a dedicated socket path, waits for it to be ready, and starts the specified command with SEATD_SOCK set appropriately. Once the specified command terminates, the seatd instance is also terminated.
seatd requires root privileges to perform its tasks. This can be achieved through SUID of seatd-launch or by running seatd-launch as root. seatd-launch will drop privileges from the effective user to the real user before running the specified command. If the real user is root, this is simply a noop. You should only run seatd-launch as root if you intend for the specified command to run as root as well.
seatd-launch serves a similar purpose to the libseat "builtin" backend, but is superior to it for two reasons:
seatd-launch exits with the status of its child. When the child terminates on a signal N, seatd-launch exits with the status 128 + N.
If seatd-launch fails because of another error, it exits with a non-zero status.
The libseat library, <libseat.h>, seatd(8)
Maintained by Kenny Levinsen <contact@kl.wtf>, who is assisted by other open-source contributors. For more information about seatd development, see https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd.
| 2022-12-14 |