seatd-launch(1)             General Commands Manual            seatd-launch(1)

NAME
       seatd-launch - Start a process with its own seatd instance

SYNOPSIS
       seatd-launch [options] [--] command

OPTIONS
       -l <loglevel>
           Log-level to pass to seatd. See seatd(1) for information about
           available log-levels.

       -h
           Show help message and quit.

       -v
           Show the version number and quit.

DESCRIPTION
       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:
       1.   The specified command never runs as root
       2.   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.

SEE ALSO
       The libseat library, <libseat.h>, seatd(1)

AUTHORS
       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.

                                  2023-07-23                   seatd-launch(1)