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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 <[email protected]> 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.

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



polkit                                                 May 2009                                           PKACTION(1)