source: postlfs/security/polkit.xml@ b5689ba

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY polkit-download-http
           "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/polkit-&polkit-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY polkit-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY polkit-md5sum        "f03b055d6ae5fc8eac76838c7d83d082">
  <!ENTITY polkit-size          "1.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY polkit-buildsize     "148 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY polkit-time          "0.4 SBU (with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="polkit" xreflabel="Polkit-&polkit-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="polkit.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Polkit-&polkit-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="polkit">
    <primary sortas="a-Polkit">Polkit</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Polkit</title>

    <para>
      <application>Polkit</application> is a toolkit for defining and handling
      authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to
      communicate with privileged processes.
    </para>

    &lfs83_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &polkit-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &polkit-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &polkit-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &polkit-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/polkit-&polkit-version;-security_patch-2.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem revision="sysv">
        <para>
          Reecommended patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/polkit-&polkit-version;-elogind-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Polkit Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="glib2"/> and
      <xref linkend="js52"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="linux-pam"/><phrase revision="sysv"> and
      <xref linkend="elogind"/></phrase>
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        Since <phrase revision="sysv"><command>elogind</command></phrase>
        <phrase revision="systemd"><command>systemd-logind</command></phrase>
        uses PAM to register user sessions, it is a good idea to build
        <application>Polkit</application> with PAM support so
        <phrase revision="sysv"><command>elogind</command></phrase>
        <phrase revision="systemd"><command>systemd-logind</command></phrase>
        can track <application>Polkit</application> sessions.
      </para>
    </note>


    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="DocBook"/>,
      <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>, and
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <phrase revision="sysv"><xref role="runtime" linkend="elogind"/></phrase>
      <phrase revision="systemd"><xref role="runtime" linkend="systemd"/></phrase>
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        If <xref linkend="libxslt"/> is installed,
        then <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> are
        required. If you have installed <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, but you do
        not want to install any of the DocBook packages mentioned, you will
        need to use <option>--disable-man-pages</option> in the instructions
        below.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/polkit"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Polkit</title>

    <para>
      There should be a dedicated user and group to take control
      of the <command>polkitd</command> daemon after it is
      started. Issue the following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -fg 27 polkitd &amp;&amp;
useradd -c "PolicyKit Daemon Owner" -d /etc/polkit-1 -u 27 \
        -g polkitd -s /bin/false polkitd</userinput></screen>

    <note revision="systemd">
      <para>
        When building <application>Polkit</application> with
        <application>systemd</application> logind support, the
        <command>configure</command> script explicitly checks if
        system is booted using <application>systemd</application>.
        This can cause problems if building the package in chroot,
        where the <command>configure</command> would fail to
        detect <application>systemd</application>. To workaround
        the problem, simply run the following command:
      </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i "s:/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/:/sys:g" configure</userinput></screen>
    </note>

    <para>
      Apply a security patch from upstream:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../polkit-&polkit-version;-security_patch-2.patch</userinput></screen>

    <para revision="sysv">
      Apply a patch to fix issues with elogind:
    </para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../polkit-0.115-elogind-1.patch &amp;&amp;
autoreconf -fi</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>Polkit</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                    \
            --sysconfdir=/etc                \
            --localstatedir=/var             \
            --disable-static                 &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
      Note that system <application>D-Bus</application> daemon
      must be running for the testsuite to complete. One tests fails
      due to the security patch.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <option>--with-authfw=shadow</option>: This switch enables the
      package to use the <application>Shadow</application> rather than the
      <application>Linux PAM</application> Authentication framework. Use it
      if you have not installed <application>Linux PAM</application>.
    </para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Polkit</title>

    <sect3>
      <title>PAM Configuration</title>

      <note>
        <para>
          If you did not build <application>Polkit</application> with
          <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you can skip this section.
        </para>
      </note>

      <para>
        If you have built <application>Polkit</application> with
        <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you need to modify
        the default PAM configuration file which was installed by default to get
        <application>Polkit</application> to work correctly with BLFS. Issue the
        following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
        user to create the configuration file for <application>Linux PAM</application>:
      </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Begin /etc/pam.d/polkit-1

auth     include        system-auth
account  include        system-account
password include        system-password
session  include        system-session

# End /etc/pam.d/polkit-1</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          pkaction, pkcheck, pk-example-frobnicate, pkexec,
          pkttyagent and polkitd
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libpolkit-agent-1.so and
          libpolkit-gobject-1.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/polkit-1,
          /usr/include/polkit-1,
          /usr/lib/polkit-1,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1 and
          /usr/share/polkit-1
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="pkaction">
        <term><command>pkaction</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkaction">
            <primary sortas="b-pkaction">pkaction</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pkcheck">
        <term><command>pkcheck</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to check whether a process is authorized for action.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkcheck">
            <primary sortas="b-pkcheck">pkcheck</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pk-example-frobnicate">
        <term><command>pk-example-frobnicate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an example program to test the <command>pkexec</command>
            command.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pk-example-frobnicate">
            <primary sortas="b-pk-example-frobnicate">pk-example-frobnicate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pkexec">
        <term><command>pkexec</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkexec">
            <primary sortas="b-pkexec">pkexec</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pkttyagent">
        <term><command>pkttyagent</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to start a textual authentication agent for the subject.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkttyagent">
            <primary sortas="b-pkttyagent">pkttyagent</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="polkitd">
        <term><command>polkitd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 <application>D-Bus</application>
            service on the system message bus.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit polkitd">
            <primary sortas="b-polkitd">polkitd</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpolkit-agent-1">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-agent-1.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>Polkit</application> authentication
            agent API functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-agent-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-agent-1">libpolkit-agent-1.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpolkit-gobject-1">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-gobject-1.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>Polkit</application> authorization API functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-gobject-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-gobject-1">libpolkit-gobject-1.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>