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)