polkitd - The polkit system daemon
polkitd
POLKITD(8) polkitd POLKITD(8) NAME polkitd - The polkit system daemon SYNOPSIS polkitd DESCRIPTION polkitd provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 D-Bus service on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) or systemd(1) whenever an application calls into the service. polkitd must be started with superuser privileges but drops privileges early by switching to the unprivileged polkitd system user. See the polkit(8) man page for more information. 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), pkaction(1), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1), pkttyagent(1), dbus- daemon(1), systemd(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 POLKITD(8)