that you need a user messagebus is not mentioned in README

[Olivier Andrieu]

 Kristof Vansant [Wed, 04 Aug 2004]:
 > 
 > That you need a user messagebus is not mentioned in README

but it is mentioned in the man page ...

 > when you start with --system option (see /etc/dbus-1/system.conf)
 > nor is there mentioned which rights this user should have.
 > Can you plz add some info about this in the README.
 > Like:
 > system.conf default will try to run dbus-daemon-1 as user messagebus
 > running as root is a bad idea
 > this user should have following rights
 > can be created with following command: foo
 > 
 > Because the user does not exist on my system the daemon instantly
 > crashes (without any err output btw)

it *crashes* or it *exits* ?

There's no error because once the daemon has forked, standard file
descriptors are closed (redirected to /dev/null). Use the variable
DBUS_DEBUG_OUTPUT to prevent that, or remove the <fork/> from the
config file.

-- 
   Olivier