https://github.com/mattsturgeon/overlayservice

A small system service to allow unprivialged access to overlayfs mouns
https://github.com/mattsturgeon/overlayservice

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A small system service to allow unprivialged access to overlayfs mouns

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mattsturgeon/overlayservice
• Owner: MattSturgeon
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-09-18T17:51:23.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-18T18:06:04.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T00:47:56.943Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Vala
• Size: 28.3 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Overlay service

**Note: this is currently in an unfinished state! You will not be able to do anything useful with this project yet, other than review the source code.**

This is a small dbus/systemd service that allows non-privalliged users to mount using overlayfs.

We may choose to control access to this via polkit (not implemented currently).

- The program should be built using meson and ninja

- Once built, `builddir/overlay-service` should be installed as `/usr/bin/overlay-service`

- `dbus.conf` shoud be installed as `/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.github.MattSturgeon.OverlayService.conf`

- `dbus.service` should be installed as `/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.github.MattSturgeon.OverlayService.service`

- `systemd.service` should be installed as `/usr/lib/systemd/system/overlay.service`

For testing purposes, `install.sh` and `uninstall.sh` can be run as root to create symlinks in the respective system directories, pointing to this repository. D-Bus must be restarted after initially installing to detect the installed service and configuration.

## Build system

This project uses the [Meson build system](https://mesonbuild.com/). You can _configure_ the project using `meson builddir` and _compile_ the project using `ninja -C builddir`:

```

meson --reconfigure builddir

ninja -C builddir

```