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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Asked: 2015-10-14 13:58:23 +0800 CST

What starts accounts-daemon?

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Question is simple: what starts the accounts service daemon on Ubuntu 14.04?

root     11495     1  0 13:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon

pstree tells me that it's started by init

init-+-ModemManager---2*[{ModemManager}]
     |-NetworkManager-+-dhclient
     |                |-dnsmasq
     |                `-3*[{NetworkManager}]
     |-accounts-daemon---2*[{accounts-daemon}]

But when I do sudo grep -iR 'accounts-daemon' /etc/* it returns nothing, so obviously there is nothing in /etc/init or /etc/init.d or /etc/rc*.d directories that starts that daemon, hence the question, where is it ?

My main goal is to disable autostart of the accounts services daemon on boot.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's a DBUS service.

    root@user-VirtualBox:~# grep -ir accounts-daemon /usr /etc
Binary file /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon matches
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service:Exec=/usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon

    Another way:

    root@user-VirtualBox:~# dpkg -S /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon
accountsservice: /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon

root@user-VirtualBox:~# dpkg -L accountsservice
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/dbus-1
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.xml
...

    To disable it, rename DBUS service file:

    sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.disabled
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  2. Yet another way...

    To get the filename:

    $ ps aux | grep -i accounts-daemon
root       718  5.6  0.7 398588 121280 ?       Rsl  Jan11 151:58 /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon

    Stop it and remove accountsservice package by running:

    sudo service accounts-daemon stop
sudo apt remove accountsservice

    It will also remove package user-manager, but do not worry about it :)

    Additional info:

    Package: accountsservice
Description: query and manipulate user account information
Package: user-manager
Description: user management tool for the Plasma workspace
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