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<refentry id="polkitd.8">
<refentryinfo>
<title>polkitd</title>
<date>May 2009</date>
<productname>polkit</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>polkitd</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>polkitd</refname>
<refpurpose>The polkit system daemon</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>polkitd</command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1 id="polkitd-description"><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
<command>polkitd</command> provides
the <emphasis>org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1</emphasis> 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
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
or
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
whenever an application calls into the service.
</para>
<para>
<command>polkitd</command> must be started with superuser
privileges but drops privileges early by switching to the
unprivileged <emphasis>polkitd</emphasis> system user.
</para>
<para>
See the <link
linkend="polkit.8"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>polkit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></link>
man page for more information.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="polkitd-author"><title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>
Written by David Zeuthen <email>davidz@redhat.com</email> with
a lot of help from many others.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="polkitd-bugs">
<title>BUGS</title>
<para>
Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the
polkit-devel mailing list,
see the link <ulink url="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel"/>
on how to subscribe.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="polkitd-see-also">
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<link linkend="polkit.8"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>polkit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></link>,
<link linkend="pkaction.1"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkaction</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></link>,
<link linkend="pkcheck.1"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkcheck</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></link>,
<link linkend="pkexec.1"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkexec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></link>,
<link linkend="pkttyagent.1"><citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkttyagent</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></link>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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