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pkaction (1)

Name

pkaction - Get details about a registered action

Synopsis

pkaction [--version] [--help]

pkaction [--verbose]

pkaction --action-id action [--verbose]

Description

PKACTION(1)                        pkaction                        PKACTION(1)



NAME
       pkaction - Get details about a registered action

SYNOPSIS
       pkaction [--version] [--help]

       pkaction [--verbose]

       pkaction --action-id action [--verbose]

DESCRIPTION
       pkaction is used to obtain information about registered polkit actions.
       If called without --action-id then all actions are displayed. Otherwise
       the action action. If called without the --verbose option only the name
       of the action is shown. Otherwise details about the actions are shown.

RETURN VALUE
       On success pkaction returns 0. Otherwise a non-zero value is returned
       and a diagnostic message is printed on standard error.

AUTHOR
       Written by David Zeuthen davidz@redhat.com with a lot of help from many
       others.

BUGS
       Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel
       mailing list, see the link
       http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel on how to
       subscribe.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | system/library/polkit |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile              |
       +---------------+-----------------------+

SEE ALSO
       polkit(8), polkitd(8), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1), pkttyagent(1)



NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/polkit-0.118.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/.



polkit                             May 2009                        PKACTION(1)