1POLKITD(8)                          polkitd                         POLKITD(8)
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NAME

6       polkitd - The polkit system daemon
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SYNOPSIS

9       polkitd
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DESCRIPTION

12       polkitd provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 D-Bus service on the
13       system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start
14       this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) or
15       systemd(1) whenever an application calls into the service.
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17       polkitd must be started with superuser privileges but drops privileges
18       early by switching to the unprivileged polkitd system user.
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20       See the polkit(8) man page for more information.
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AUTHOR

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

27       Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel
28       mailing list, see the link
29       http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel on how to
30       subscribe.
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SEE ALSO

33       polkit(8), pkaction(1), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1), pkttyagent(1), dbus-
34       daemon(1), systemd(1)
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38polkit                             May 2009                         POLKITD(8)