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Gabriel Brown 1aa1324083 Lead Appearance with light and dark, and stop pages listing whole datasets
Appearance was six cards deep and Light/Dark was the third of them, below the
wallpaper grid and the entire lock screen -- so the control reached most often
was the last one you got to. It is five tabs now, Theme first. The mock showed
four; the page turned out to have eleven cards, so Titlebars and Windows became
Windows, and Clock and vitals became Shell, rather than pretending four would
hold them.

Region, Date & Time and Displays each rendered a complete dataset as rows: every
installed locale, the whole tz database, every mode the monitor advertises. The
chooser was never the problem -- SearchPicker already existed and worked. It was
simply rendered always-expanded, so the one line saying what is currently set sat
under hundreds that were not. PickerRow collapses each behind its current value
and closes again once something is picked.

The avatar never appeared to change because accountsservice writes every picture
to the same path, leaving the URL byte-identical while Qt served its cached
image. cache:false was already set and could not have helped: an unchanged source
is never re-read at all. avatarUrl now carries a revision fragment, bumped only
when a write actually succeeds. Pictures are cropped before they are set, in the
picture's own pixel coordinates so the result does not depend on the size it
happened to be displayed at, and written out at 512x512 through GdkPixbuf --
already a dependency here, so nothing new is required.

Snapshots listed nothing. The timeline and its Delete buttons existed the whole
time, behind a row labelled "Browse...", a word that promises a file browser. The
three most recent points are shown inline now, with the rest one press away.

qmldir-registration-contract exists because an unregistered component is not a
quiet problem: Quickshell fails the entire configuration on it, so the settings
window dies and the bar and dock go with it. That happened twice while writing
this, both times on a machine somebody was using. It is pure file inspection, so
it runs before a change ever reaches the running shell.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""User accounts, through accountsservice -- the same daemon GNOME's Users panel
drives.
Everything here that changes something is authorized by polkit, which prompts
through the agent this desktop already runs. This script never asks for a
password itself and never holds an administrator credential.
The one credential it does handle is a NEW password being set. That is read
from stdin, hashed by openssl reading its own stdin, and handed to
accountsservice over D-Bus from inside this process. It is never an argument:
argv is world-readable through /proc, so a password -- or even its hash --
passed that way is published to every process on the machine.
panama-accounts snapshot
panama-accounts set-real-name USER NAME
panama-accounts set-icon USER PATH [X Y SIZE]
panama-accounts set-account-type USER standard|administrator
panama-accounts set-automatic-login USER true|false
panama-accounts set-password USER (new password on stdin)
panama-accounts create-user USERNAME REALNAME standard|administrator
panama-accounts delete-user USERNAME [keep-files|remove-files]
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import os
import re
import subprocess
import tempfile
import sys
ACCOUNTS = "org.freedesktop.Accounts"
ACCOUNTS_PATH = "/org/freedesktop/Accounts"
USER_INTERFACE = "org.freedesktop.Accounts.User"
# Account types as accountsservice numbers them.
STANDARD, ADMINISTRATOR = 0, 1
USERNAME = re.compile(r"^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]{0,31}$")
class BoundaryError(RuntimeError):
"""A user-visible validation or permission failure."""
def bus():
try:
import gi
gi.require_version("Gio", "2.0")
from gi.repository import Gio, GLib
return Gio, GLib, Gio.bus_get_sync(Gio.BusType.SYSTEM, None)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 - no bus is a legitimate state
raise BoundaryError("The account service is not answering.") from error
def call(path: str, interface: str, method: str, parameters=None, reply=None):
Gio, GLib, connection = bus()
try:
result = connection.call_sync(
ACCOUNTS, path, interface, method, parameters,
GLib.VariantType(reply) if reply else None,
Gio.DBusCallFlags.NONE, 120000, None)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
message = str(error)
# Polkit's own refusal is the common case and deserves plain words
# rather than a D-Bus error string.
if "not authorized" in message.lower() or "dismissed" in message.lower():
raise BoundaryError("That change was not authorized.") from error
raise BoundaryError(_clean(message)) from error
return result.unpack() if result is not None else None
def _clean(message: str) -> str:
"""The last useful sentence of a D-Bus error, without the type prefix."""
trimmed = re.sub(r"^GDBus\.Error:[^:]+:\s*", "", message).strip()
return trimmed.splitlines()[0][:200] if trimmed else "That change failed."
def properties(path: str) -> dict:
Gio, GLib, connection = bus()
result = connection.call_sync(
ACCOUNTS, path, "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties", "GetAll",
GLib.Variant("(s)", (USER_INTERFACE,)), GLib.VariantType("(a{sv})"),
Gio.DBusCallFlags.NONE, 20000, None)
return result.unpack()[0]
def user_path(username: str) -> str:
if not USERNAME.fullmatch(username or ""):
raise BoundaryError("That is not a user name.")
from gi.repository import GLib
return call(ACCOUNTS_PATH, ACCOUNTS, "FindUserByName",
GLib.Variant("(s)", (username,)), "(o)")[0]
def describe(path: str) -> dict:
values = properties(path)
icon = str(values.get("IconFile") or "")
return {
"path": path,
"userName": str(values.get("UserName") or ""),
"realName": str(values.get("RealName") or ""),
# Reported only when it is actually there: accountsservice keeps the
# path in its database whether or not a file exists, so a deleted
# avatar otherwise shows as a broken image.
"iconFile": icon if icon and os.path.isfile(icon) else "",
"administrator": int(values.get("AccountType") or 0) == ADMINISTRATOR,
"locked": bool(values.get("Locked")),
"automaticLogin": bool(values.get("AutomaticLogin")),
"loginTime": int(values.get("LoginTime") or 0),
"shell": str(values.get("Shell") or ""),
"homeDirectory": str(values.get("HomeDirectory") or ""),
"systemAccount": bool(values.get("SystemAccount")),
"uid": int(values.get("Uid") or 0),
}
def snapshot() -> dict:
paths = call(ACCOUNTS_PATH, ACCOUNTS, "ListCachedUsers", None, "(ao)")[0]
users = [describe(path) for path in paths]
users = [user for user in users if not user["systemAccount"]]
users.sort(key=lambda user: user["uid"])
me = os.environ.get("USER") or ""
return {
"users": users,
"currentUser": me,
# Removing the only administrator would leave a machine nobody can
# administer, so the page needs to know rather than find out.
"administratorCount": sum(1 for user in users if user["administrator"]),
"error": "",
}
def set_real_name(username: str, name: str) -> None:
from gi.repository import GLib
if len(name) > 128 or "\n" in name or ":" in name:
raise BoundaryError("That name cannot be used.")
call(user_path(username), USER_INTERFACE, "SetRealName",
GLib.Variant("(s)", (name,)))
# What an avatar is written out at. accountsservice stores whatever it is
# handed, so a 4000px photograph would sit on disk forever to be drawn at 48.
AVATAR_SIZE = 512
def crop_square(path: str, x: int, y: int, size: int) -> str:
"""Cut a square out of a picture and write it at avatar size.
Returns a path to a new file; the caller is responsible for removing it.
GdkPixbuf rather than a new dependency -- gi is already required here for
accountsservice itself.
"""
import gi
gi.require_version("GdkPixbuf", "2.0")
from gi.repository import GdkPixbuf
try:
picture = GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_file(path)
except Exception as error:
raise BoundaryError("That file is not a picture this can read.") from error
if size <= 0:
raise BoundaryError("That is not a region of the picture.")
# Clamped rather than rejected: a drag that ends a pixel outside the image
# is a normal thing to do with a pointer, not an error worth refusing.
x = max(0, min(x, picture.get_width() - 1))
y = max(0, min(y, picture.get_height() - 1))
size = min(size, picture.get_width() - x, picture.get_height() - y)
if size <= 0:
raise BoundaryError("That region is outside the picture.")
square = picture.new_subpixbuf(x, y, size, size)
scaled = square.scale_simple(AVATAR_SIZE, AVATAR_SIZE, GdkPixbuf.InterpType.BILINEAR)
if scaled is None:
raise BoundaryError("That picture could not be resized.")
handle, out = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="panama-avatar-", suffix=".png")
os.close(handle)
# accountsservice reads this as root and copies it; it must not be private
# to this user, and it is deleted as soon as that copy has happened.
os.chmod(out, 0o644)
scaled.savev(out, "png", [], [])
return out
def set_icon(username: str, path: str, region: tuple[int, int, int] | None = None) -> None:
from gi.repository import GLib
if not os.path.isfile(path):
raise BoundaryError("That picture no longer exists.")
source = path
temporary = None
if region is not None:
temporary = source = crop_square(path, *region)
try:
call(user_path(username), USER_INTERFACE, "SetIconFile",
GLib.Variant("(s)", (source,)))
finally:
# SetIconFile copies the file before it returns, so this is safe here
# and leaving it behind would litter /tmp with every picture ever set.
if temporary is not None:
try:
os.unlink(temporary)
except OSError:
pass
def set_account_type(username: str, kind: str) -> None:
from gi.repository import GLib
if kind not in ("standard", "administrator"):
raise BoundaryError("That is not an account type.")
call(user_path(username), USER_INTERFACE, "SetAccountType",
GLib.Variant("(i)", (ADMINISTRATOR if kind == "administrator" else STANDARD,)))
def set_automatic_login(username: str, enabled: bool) -> None:
from gi.repository import GLib
call(user_path(username), USER_INTERFACE, "SetAutomaticLogin",
GLib.Variant("(b)", (enabled,)))
def set_password(username: str) -> None:
"""Set a new password, read from stdin and never named on a command line."""
secret = sys.stdin.buffer.read()
# A trailing newline from a pipe is not part of the password.
if secret.endswith(b"\n"):
secret = secret[:-1]
if not secret:
raise BoundaryError("No password was provided.")
if len(secret) < 6:
raise BoundaryError("That password is too short.")
# openssl reads the password on ITS stdin too, so the cleartext never
# appears in a process listing at any point in the chain.
hashed = subprocess.run(["openssl", "passwd", "-6", "-stdin"],
input=secret, capture_output=True, timeout=30, check=False)
if hashed.returncode != 0 or not hashed.stdout.strip():
raise BoundaryError("The password could not be prepared.")
from gi.repository import GLib
call(user_path(username), USER_INTERFACE, "SetPassword",
GLib.Variant("(ss)", (hashed.stdout.decode().strip(), "")))
def create_user(username: str, real_name: str, kind: str) -> None:
from gi.repository import GLib
if not USERNAME.fullmatch(username or ""):
raise BoundaryError("A user name may use lowercase letters, digits, - and _.")
if kind not in ("standard", "administrator"):
raise BoundaryError("That is not an account type.")
call(ACCOUNTS_PATH, ACCOUNTS, "CreateUser",
GLib.Variant("(ssi)", (username, real_name,
ADMINISTRATOR if kind == "administrator" else STANDARD)),
"(o)")
def delete_user(username: str, files: str) -> None:
from gi.repository import GLib
if files not in ("keep-files", "remove-files"):
raise BoundaryError("Say whether to keep or remove the home directory.")
if username == (os.environ.get("USER") or ""):
raise BoundaryError("You cannot delete the account you are signed in to.")
state = snapshot()
target = next((user for user in state["users"] if user["userName"] == username), None)
if target is None:
raise BoundaryError("That account no longer exists.")
if target["administrator"] and state["administratorCount"] <= 1:
raise BoundaryError("That is the only administrator; the machine would have none.")
call(ACCOUNTS_PATH, ACCOUNTS, "DeleteUser",
GLib.Variant("(xb)", (target["uid"], files == "remove-files")))
def main(arguments: list[str]) -> int:
try:
if arguments == ["snapshot"]:
print(json.dumps(snapshot(), separators=(",", ":")))
return 0
if len(arguments) == 3 and arguments[0] == "set-real-name":
set_real_name(arguments[1], arguments[2])
elif len(arguments) == 3 and arguments[0] == "set-icon":
set_icon(arguments[1], arguments[2])
elif len(arguments) == 6 and arguments[0] == "set-icon":
try:
region = tuple(int(value) for value in arguments[3:6])
except ValueError:
raise BoundaryError("That is not a region of the picture.")
set_icon(arguments[1], arguments[2], region)
elif len(arguments) == 3 and arguments[0] == "set-account-type":
set_account_type(arguments[1], arguments[2])
elif len(arguments) == 3 and arguments[0] == "set-automatic-login":
set_automatic_login(arguments[1], arguments[2] == "true")
elif len(arguments) == 2 and arguments[0] == "set-password":
set_password(arguments[1])
elif len(arguments) == 4 and arguments[0] == "create-user":
create_user(arguments[1], arguments[2], arguments[3])
elif len(arguments) == 3 and arguments[0] == "delete-user":
delete_user(arguments[1], arguments[2])
else:
raise BoundaryError(
"Usage: panama-accounts snapshot | set-real-name USER NAME | "
"set-icon USER PATH [X Y SIZE] | set-account-type USER standard|administrator | "
"set-automatic-login USER true|false | set-password USER | "
"create-user USERNAME REALNAME standard|administrator | "
"delete-user USERNAME keep-files|remove-files")
except BoundaryError as error:
# Answers with the fresh state plus the message, so a page never has to
# ask twice to find out what happened.
try:
state = snapshot()
except BoundaryError:
state = {"users": [], "currentUser": "", "administratorCount": 0}
state["error"] = str(error)
print(json.dumps(state, separators=(",", ":")))
return 0
print(json.dumps(snapshot(), separators=(",", ":")))
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv[1:]))