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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[0d7900a] | 7 | <!ENTITY polkit-download-http
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[8bd63687] | 8 | "&sources-anduin-http;/polkit/polkit-&polkit-version;.tar.xz">
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[9d3d8a8] | 9 | <!ENTITY polkit-download-ftp " ">
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[8bd63687] | 10 | <!ENTITY polkit-md5sum "11ec10c04899651e40ef66766932254d">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY polkit-size "616 KB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY polkit-buildsize "19 MB">
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[7e900ba6] | 13 | <!ENTITY polkit-time "0.2 SBU">
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[9d3d8a8] | 14 | ]>
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| 15 |
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[01996ebb] | 16 | <sect1 id="polkit" xreflabel="Polkit-&polkit-version;">
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[9d3d8a8] | 17 | <?dbhtml filename="polkit.html"?>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect1info>
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| 20 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 21 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 22 | </sect1info>
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| 23 |
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[01996ebb] | 24 | <title>Polkit-&polkit-version;</title>
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[9d3d8a8] | 25 |
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| 26 | <indexterm zone="polkit">
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[01996ebb] | 27 | <primary sortas="a-Polkit">Polkit</primary>
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[9d3d8a8] | 28 | </indexterm>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <sect2 role="package">
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[01996ebb] | 31 | <title>Introduction to Polkit</title>
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[9d3d8a8] | 32 |
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[b84342d6] | 33 | <para>
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[01996ebb] | 34 | <application>Polkit</application> is a toolkit for defining and handling
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[9ca304a] | 35 | authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to
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[30f82900] | 36 | communicate with privileged processes.
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[b84342d6] | 37 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 38 |
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[23fc1d1] | 39 | &lfs80_checked;
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[27e62762] | 40 |
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[8bd63687] | 41 | <note><para>Due to lack of relases, a tarball has been generated for use by
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| 42 | BLFS, which includes a git checkout at ref 2919920, and a pending patch to
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| 43 | use js38. The patch is included in the tarball for review.</para></note>
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| 44 |
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[9d3d8a8] | 45 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 46 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 47 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 48 | <para>
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| 49 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-http;"/>
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| 50 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 53 | <para>
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| 54 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-ftp;"/>
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| 55 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 58 | <para>
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| 59 | Download MD5 sum: &polkit-md5sum;
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| 60 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 61 | </listitem>
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| 62 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 63 | <para>
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| 64 | Download size: &polkit-size;
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| 65 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 66 | </listitem>
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| 67 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 68 | <para>
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| 69 | Estimated disk space required: &polkit-buildsize;
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| 70 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 73 | <para>
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| 74 | Estimated build time: &polkit-time;
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| 75 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 76 | </listitem>
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| 77 | </itemizedlist>
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| 78 |
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[01996ebb] | 79 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Polkit Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[9d3d8a8] | 80 |
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| 81 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[bb947c32] | 82 | <para role="required">
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[56605b9] | 83 | <xref linkend="glib2"/>, and
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[8bd63687] | 84 | <xref linkend="js38"/>
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[4c2be438] | 85 | </para>
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| 86 |
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[f586237] | 87 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4" revision="systemd">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 88 | <para role="recommended" revision="systemd">
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| 89 | <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>
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| 90 | </para>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <note revision="systemd">
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| 93 | <para>
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| 94 | Since <command>systemd-logind</command> uses PAM to register user
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| 95 | sessions, it is a good idea to build <application>Polkit</application>
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| 96 | with PAM support so <command>systemd-logind</command> can track
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| 97 | <application>Polkit</application> sessions.
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| 98 | </para>
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| 99 | </note>
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| 100 |
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| 101 |
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[4c2be438] | 102 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
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| 103 | <para role="optional">
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| 104 | <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
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| 105 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 106 |
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| 107 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[bb947c32] | 108 | <para role="optional">
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[0d7900a] | 109 | <xref linkend="DocBook"/>,
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| 110 | <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/>,
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[f586237] | 111 | <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>, <phrase revision="systemd">and </phrase>
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| 112 | <xref linkend="libxslt"/><phrase revision="sysv">, and
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| 113 | <xref linkend="linux-pam"/></phrase>
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| 114 | </para>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4" revision="systemd">Required Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 117 | <para role="required" revision="systemd">
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| 118 | <xref linkend="systemd"/>
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[4c2be438] | 119 | </para>
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[875b4070] | 120 |
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| 121 | <note>
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[b84342d6] | 122 | <para>
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[f586237] | 123 | If <xref linkend="libxslt"/> is installed,
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| 124 | then <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> are
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| 125 | required. If you have installed <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, but you do
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| 126 | not want to install any of the DocBook packages mentioned, you will
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| 127 | need to use <option>--disable-man-pages</option> in the instructions
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| 128 | below.
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[b84342d6] | 129 | </para>
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[875b4070] | 130 | </note>
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[9d3d8a8] | 131 |
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| 132 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[37aba7f] | 133 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/polkit"/>
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| 134 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 135 | </sect2>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[01996ebb] | 138 | <title>Installation of Polkit</title>
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[9d3d8a8] | 139 |
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[b84342d6] | 140 | <para>
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[01996ebb] | 141 | There should be a dedicated user and group to take control
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| 142 | of the <command>polkitd</command> daemon after it is
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| 143 | started. Issue the following commands as the
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| 144 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 145 | </para>
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| 146 |
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| 147 | <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -fg 27 polkitd &&
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| 148 | useradd -c "PolicyKit Daemon Owner" -d /etc/polkit-1 -u 27 \
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| 149 | -g polkitd -s /bin/false polkitd</userinput></screen>
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| 150 |
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[f586237] | 151 | <note revision="systemd">
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| 152 | <para>
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| 153 | When building <application>Polkit</application> with
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| 154 | <application>systemd</application> logind support, the
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| 155 | <command>configure</command> script explicitly checks if
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| 156 | system is booted using <application>systemd</application>.
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| 157 | This can cause problems if building the package in chroot,
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| 158 | where the <command>configure</command> would fail to
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| 159 | detect <application>systemd</application>. To workaround
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| 160 | the problem, simply run the following command:
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| 161 | </para>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | <screen><userinput>sed -i "s:/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/:/sys:g" configure</userinput></screen>
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| 164 | </note>
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| 165 |
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[01996ebb] | 166 | <para>
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| 167 | Install <application>Polkit</application> by running the following
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[37aba7f] | 168 | commands:
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[b84342d6] | 169 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 170 |
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[92245989] | 171 | <screen revision="sysv"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[d278ced] | 172 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 173 | --localstatedir=/var \
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| 174 | --disable-static \
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| 175 | --enable-libsystemd-login=no \
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| 176 | --with-authfw=shadow &&
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[9d3d8a8] | 177 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 178 |
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[92245989] | 179 | <screen revision="systemd"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[d278ced] | 180 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 181 | --localstatedir=/var \
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| 182 | --disable-static &&
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[f586237] | 183 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 184 |
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[b84342d6] | 185 | <para>
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[01996ebb] | 186 | To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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[3bbf74c5] | 187 | Note that system <application>D-Bus</application> daemon
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| 188 | must be running for the testsuite to complete. There is
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| 189 | also a warning about <application>ConsoleKit</application>
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| 190 | database not present, but that one can be safely ignored.
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[b84342d6] | 191 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 192 |
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[b84342d6] | 193 | <para>
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| 194 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 195 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 196 |
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| 197 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 198 |
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| 199 | </sect2>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 202 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 203 |
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[f586237] | 204 | <para revision="sysv">
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[b4ec1126] | 205 | <parameter>--enable-libsystemd-login=no</parameter>: This parameter fixes
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| 206 | building without <application>systemd</application>, which is not part
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| 207 | of LFS/BLFS. If you use <application>systemd</application>,
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| 208 | replace "no" by "yes".
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[dbac0b14] | 209 | </para>
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| 210 |
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[f586237] | 211 | <para revision="sysv">
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[01996ebb] | 212 | <parameter>--with-authfw=shadow</parameter>: This parameter configures the
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| 213 | package to use the <application>Shadow</application> rather than the
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[f586237] | 214 | <application>Linux-PAM</application> Authentication framework. Remove it
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| 215 | if you would like to use <application>Linux-PAM</application>.
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| 216 | </para>
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| 217 |
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| 218 | <para revision="systemd">
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| 219 | <option>--with-authfw=shadow</option>: This switch enables the
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| 220 | package to use the <application>Shadow</application> rather than the
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| 221 | <application>Linux PAM</application> Authentication framework. Use it
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| 222 | if you have not installed <application>Linux PAM</application>.
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[b84342d6] | 223 | </para>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 226 | href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
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[875b4070] | 227 |
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[e05cd03f] | 228 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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[b84342d6] | 229 | href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
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[9d3d8a8] | 230 |
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| 231 | </sect2>
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| 232 |
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[a6bd736] | 233 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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[01996ebb] | 234 | <title>Configuring Polkit</title>
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[a6bd736] | 235 |
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| 236 | <sect3>
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| 237 | <title>PAM Configuration</title>
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| 238 |
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| 239 | <note>
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[b84342d6] | 240 | <para>
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[01996ebb] | 241 | If you did not build <application>Polkit</application> with
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[b84342d6] | 242 | <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you can skip this section.
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[a6bd736] | 243 | </para>
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| 244 | </note>
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| 245 |
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[b84342d6] | 246 | <para>
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[0d7900a] | 247 | If you have built <application>Polkit</application> with
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| 248 | <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you need to modify
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[9ca304a] | 249 | the default PAM configuration file which was installed by default to get
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| 250 | <application>Polkit</application> to work correctly with BLFS. Issue the
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| 251 | following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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[b84342d6] | 252 | user to create the configuration file for <application>Linux PAM</application>:
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[a6bd736] | 253 | </para>
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| 254 |
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| 255 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cat > /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 << "EOF"
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| 256 | <literal># Begin /etc/pam.d/polkit-1
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| 257 |
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| 258 | auth include system-auth
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| 259 | account include system-account
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| 260 | password include system-password
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| 261 | session include system-session
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| 262 |
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| 263 | # End /etc/pam.d/polkit-1</literal>
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| 264 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 265 |
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| 266 | </sect3>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | </sect2>
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| 269 |
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[9d3d8a8] | 270 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 271 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 272 |
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| 273 | <segmentedlist>
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| 274 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 275 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 276 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 277 |
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| 278 | <seglistitem>
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[b84342d6] | 279 | <seg>
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[f342c0a9] | 280 | pkaction, pkcheck, pk-example-frobnicate, pkexec,
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| 281 | pkttyagent and polkitd
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[b84342d6] | 282 | </seg>
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| 283 | <seg>
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[0d7900a] | 284 | libpolkit-agent-1.so and
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[b84342d6] | 285 | libpolkit-gobject-1.so
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| 286 | </seg>
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[028759b] | 287 | <seg>
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[01996ebb] | 288 | /etc/polkit-1,
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| 289 | /usr/include/polkit-1,
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| 290 | /usr/lib/polkit-1,
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| 291 | /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1 and
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[028759b] | 292 | /usr/share/polkit-1
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[b84342d6] | 293 | </seg>
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[9d3d8a8] | 294 | </seglistitem>
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| 295 | </segmentedlist>
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| 296 |
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| 297 | <variablelist>
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| 298 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 299 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 300 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 301 |
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| 302 | <varlistentry id="pkaction">
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| 303 | <term><command>pkaction</command></term>
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| 304 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 305 | <para>
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| 306 | is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions.
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| 307 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 308 | <indexterm zone="polkit pkaction">
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| 309 | <primary sortas="b-pkaction">pkaction</primary>
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| 310 | </indexterm>
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| 311 | </listitem>
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| 312 | </varlistentry>
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| 313 |
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| 314 | <varlistentry id="pkcheck">
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| 315 | <term><command>pkcheck</command></term>
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| 316 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 317 | <para>
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| 318 | is used to check whether a process is authorized for action.
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| 319 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 320 | <indexterm zone="polkit pkcheck">
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| 321 | <primary sortas="b-pkcheck">pkcheck</primary>
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| 322 | </indexterm>
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| 323 | </listitem>
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| 324 | </varlistentry>
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| 325 |
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[72d90b67] | 326 | <varlistentry id="pk-example-frobnicate">
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| 327 | <term><command>pk-example-frobnicate</command></term>
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| 328 | <listitem>
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| 329 | <para>
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| 330 | is an example program to test the <command>pkexec</command>
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| 331 | command.
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| 332 | </para>
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| 333 | <indexterm zone="polkit pk-example-frobnicate">
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| 334 | <primary sortas="b-pk-example-frobnicate">pk-example-frobnicate</primary>
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| 335 | </indexterm>
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| 336 | </listitem>
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| 337 | </varlistentry>
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| 338 |
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[9d3d8a8] | 339 | <varlistentry id="pkexec">
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| 340 | <term><command>pkexec</command></term>
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| 341 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 342 | <para>
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| 343 | allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.
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| 344 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 345 | <indexterm zone="polkit pkexec">
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| 346 | <primary sortas="b-pkexec">pkexec</primary>
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| 347 | </indexterm>
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| 348 | </listitem>
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| 349 | </varlistentry>
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| 350 |
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[b84342d6] | 351 | <varlistentry id="pkttyagent">
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| 352 | <term><command>pkttyagent</command></term>
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[9d3d8a8] | 353 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 354 | <para>
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| 355 | is used to start a textual authentication agent for the subject.
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| 356 | </para>
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| 357 | <indexterm zone="polkit pkttyagent">
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| 358 | <primary sortas="b-pkttyagent">pkttyagent</primary>
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[9d3d8a8] | 359 | </indexterm>
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| 360 | </listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 361 | </varlistentry>
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[9d3d8a8] | 362 |
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[875b4070] | 363 | <varlistentry id="polkitd">
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[9d3d8a8] | 364 | <term><command>polkitd</command></term>
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| 365 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 366 | <para>
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[0d7900a] | 367 | provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 <application>D-Bus</application>
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[b84342d6] | 368 | service on the system message bus.
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| 369 | </para>
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[875b4070] | 370 | <indexterm zone="polkit polkitd">
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[9d3d8a8] | 371 | <primary sortas="b-polkitd">polkitd</primary>
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| 372 | </indexterm>
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| 373 | </listitem>
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| 374 | </varlistentry>
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| 375 |
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| 376 | <varlistentry id="libpolkit-agent-1">
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[b84342d6] | 377 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-agent-1.so</filename></term>
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[9d3d8a8] | 378 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 379 | <para>
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[01996ebb] | 380 | contains the <application>Polkit</application> authentication
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[b84342d6] | 381 | agent API functions.
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| 382 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 383 | <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-agent-1">
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[b84342d6] | 384 | <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-agent-1">libpolkit-agent-1.so</primary>
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[9d3d8a8] | 385 | </indexterm>
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| 386 | </listitem>
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| 387 | </varlistentry>
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| 388 |
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| 389 | <varlistentry id="libpolkit-gobject-1">
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[b84342d6] | 390 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-gobject-1.so</filename></term>
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[9d3d8a8] | 391 | <listitem>
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[b84342d6] | 392 | <para>
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[01996ebb] | 393 | contains the <application>Polkit</application> authorization API functions.
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[b84342d6] | 394 | </para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 395 | <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-gobject-1">
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[b84342d6] | 396 | <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-gobject-1">libpolkit-gobject-1.so</primary>
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[9d3d8a8] | 397 | </indexterm>
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| 398 | </listitem>
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| 399 | </varlistentry>
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| 400 |
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| 401 | </variablelist>
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| 402 |
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| 403 | </sect2>
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| 404 |
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| 405 | </sect1>
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