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(8)

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.

                                            2023-07-31                            seatd-launch(1)