[systemd-devel] How to authenticate login using org.freedesktop.login1

[Lal, Arun]

Hi All,

I was trying to authenticate a user from a deamon running in my machine. And I found systemd-login can be used.
I went through documentation for interface org.freedesktop.login1, but I am not clear on how it can be used.

Lets assume that there is a deamon called xyz running in my device which has a webserver component. And it receives a request to login from https side.
And once the deamon has username and password, I would like to invoke some dbus calls to org.freedesktop.login1 to perform the authentication.

Assuming org.freedesktop.systemd1.Privileged("true"), I see that I can use CreateSession and ReleaseSession from interface org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.
But I have some doubts:

  *   Is this recommended approach.
  *   I am not seeing an argument in CreateSession method that takes password, what am I missing here?

Thanks in advance 😊

Regards,
Arun Lal K M


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