URI: DesktopService

Package: Application

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Description: Supports remote access to graphical desktop functionality on its host. If the service controls the host, it has root privileges, enabling remote system admin. If the service controls other processes running on the host, it has the privileges assigned to those processes, and users can interact via a remote desktop client with those processes and any data used by them. This is distinct from a simple login service which also provides access to the shell, but users can only interact with command line processes. A desktop service may be configured as a restricted workspace by enabling security controls such that it does not allow the user unrestricted access to the shell, but only to processes that are specified as being available to the desktop service.