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polkitd - The polkit system daemon

polkitd

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.

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

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.

*polkit*(8), *pkaction*(1), *pkcheck*(1), *pkexec*(1), *pkttyagent*(1), *dbus-daemon*(1), *systemd*(1)