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25 <a name="idp10426944"></a><h2>What is gumd/libgum?</h2>
27 gumd and libgum together provides a framework for creating, deleting
28 and modifying user and groups in the system. gumd is a daemon that
29 implements the functionality that provides access to user/group
30 database and libgum is a client library for applications to communicate
34 By using libgum client library, an application can query/create/delete/modify
35 users' and groups' database.
38 The client library, libgum, interacts with gumd daemon through
39 D-Bus. These D-Bus APIs should not be used directly as they are not
40 documented, subject to change and don't come with backwards
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