PolicyKit

Infobox Software
name = PolicyKit



caption = PolicyKit on Ubuntu
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author =
developer = David Zeuthen
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latest release version = 0.9
latest release date = release date|2008|07|22
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programming language =
operating system = Unix-like
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genre = Privilege authorization
license = MIT License [ [http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/license.html Appendix A. License ] ]
website = http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/

PolicyKit is an application development toolkit for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides the capability for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. In contrast to systems like sudo, it does not grant root permission to an entire process, but rather allows a finer level of control centralized system policy. It is produced by the freedesktop.org project.

PolicyKit is used in Ubuntu (since 8.04) and Fedora (since 8).

See also

* ConsoleKit
* DeviceKit
* PackageKit

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External links

* [http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/ PolicyKit Library Reference Manual]