seatd-launch1
Start a process with its own seatd instance
Usage
seatd-launch [options]
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command
Options
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-l <loglevel> -
Log-level to pass to seatd. See seatd(1) for information about available log-levels.
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-h -
Show help message and quit.
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-v -
Show the version number and quit.
Overview
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:
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The specified command never runs as root |
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The standard seatd executable and libseat backend is used |
Exit status
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.
Releases
3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.