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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 <[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), pkaction(1), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1), pkttyagent(1), dbus-daemon(1), systemd(1)



polkit                                                 May 2009                                            POLKITD(8)