GOA\-DAEMON

Section: System Management Commands (8)
Updated: June 2020
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NAME

goa-daemon - GNOME Online Accounts Daemon

SYNOPSIS

goa-daemon [--help] [--replace]

DESCRIPTION

The goa-daemon program provides the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts name on the session message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application sends a D-Bus message to the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts name on the session bus.

CONFIGURATION FILE

The goa-daemon program stores configuration in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/goa-1.0/accounts.conf (typically ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf) file. The format of this file is private and 3rd party programs or libraries should never read it. This file does not contain any passwords or secrets.

See the m[blue]XDG Base Directory Specificationm[][1] for more information about $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

SECRETS

The goa-daemon program stores secrets (such as OAuth tokens) in m[blue]GNOME Keyringm[][2]. The format of the stored secrets is private and 3rd party programs or libraries should never read, modify or delete these secrets.

OPTIONS

--replace

: Replace existing instance.

--help

: Show help options.

AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> with a lot of help from many others.

BUGS

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at m[blue]https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/issuesm[]. There are some debugging tips at m[blue]https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts/Debuggingm[]

NOTES

1.

XDG Base Directory Specification

: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

2.

GNOME Keyring

: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring