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Last change on this file since 39ac53f0 was 39ac53f0, checked in by Randy McMurchy <randy@…>, 14 years ago

Removed redundant Expat dependency from the polkit package

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY polkit-download-http "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-&polkit-version;.tar.gz">
8 <!ENTITY polkit-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY polkit-md5sum "5abc9f858e7b614ef41161db36d53915">
10 <!ENTITY polkit-size "986 KB">
11 <!ENTITY polkit-buildsize "17 MB">
12 <!ENTITY polkit-time "0.3 SBU">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="polkit" xreflabel="polkit-&polkit-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="polkit.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
22
23 <title>polkit-&polkit-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="polkit">
26 <primary sortas="a-polkit">polkit</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to polkit</title>
31
32 <para>The <application>polkit</application> package is an
33 application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows
34 unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.</para>
35
36 &lfs65_checked;
37
38 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
39 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
40 <listitem>
41 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-http;"/></para>
42 </listitem>
43 <listitem>
44 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-ftp;"/></para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>Download MD5 sum: &polkit-md5sum;</para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>Download size: &polkit-size;</para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>Estimated disk space required: &polkit-buildsize;</para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>Estimated build time: &polkit-time;</para>
57 </listitem>
58 </itemizedlist>
59
60 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">polkit Dependencies</bridgehead>
61
62 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
63 <para role="required"><xref linkend="eggdbus"/>,
64 <xref linkend="intltool"/>,
65 <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
66 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>, and
67 <xref linkend="DocBook"/></para>
68
69 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
70 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para>
71
72 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
73 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/polkit"/></para>
74
75 </sect2>
76
77 <sect2 role="installation">
78 <title>Installation of polkit</title>
79
80 <para>It is a requirement to have a dedicated user and group for
81 <application>polkit</application> to function correctly. Issue the
82 following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
83 user:</para>
84
85<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -fg 27 polkituser &amp;&amp;
86useradd -c "Policy Kit Daemon User" -d /dev/null -u 27 \
87 -g polkituser -s /bin/false polkituser || [ $? == 9 ]</userinput></screen>
88
89 <para>Install <application>polkit</application> by running the following
90 commands as an unprivileged user:</para>
91
92<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
93 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/polkit-1 --localstatedir=/var &amp;&amp;
94make</userinput></screen>
95
96 <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
97
98 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
99
100<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
101
102 </sect2>
103
104 <sect2 role="commands">
105 <title>Command Explanations</title>
106
107 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
108 href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
109
110 </sect2>
111
112 <sect2 role="content">
113 <title>Contents</title>
114
115 <segmentedlist>
116 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
117 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
118 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
119
120 <seglistitem>
121 <seg>pkaction, pkcheck, pk-example-frobnicate, pkexec,
122 polkit-agent-helper-1, and polkitd</seg>
123 <seg>libpolkit-agent-1.{so,a}, libpolkit-backend-1.{so,a},
124 libpolkit-gobject-1.{so,a}, libnullbackend.{so,a}, and
125 libpkexec-action-lookup.{so,a}</seg>
126 <seg>/etc/polkit-1/{localauthority.conf.d,nullbackend.conf.d},
127 /usr/{include/polkit-1/{polkit,polkitagent,polkitbackend},
128 lib/polkit-1/extensions,share/polkit-1/actions},
129 /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/{10-vendor.d,20-org.d,30-site.d,
130 50-local.d,90-mandatory.d}</seg>
131 </seglistitem>
132 </segmentedlist>
133
134 <variablelist>
135 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
136 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
137 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
138
139 <varlistentry id="pkaction">
140 <term><command>pkaction</command></term>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions.</para>
143 <indexterm zone="polkit pkaction">
144 <primary sortas="b-pkaction">pkaction</primary>
145 </indexterm>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148
149 <varlistentry id="pkcheck">
150 <term><command>pkcheck</command></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>is used to check whether a process is authorized for action.</para>
153 <indexterm zone="polkit pkcheck">
154 <primary sortas="b-pkcheck">pkcheck</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159<!-- <varlistentry id="pk-example-frobnicate">
160 <term><command>pk-example-frobnicate</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>does this .....</para>
163 <indexterm zone="polkit pk-example-frobnicate">
164 <primary sortas="b-pk-example-frobnicate">pk-example-frobnicate</primary>
165 </indexterm>
166 </listitem>
167 </varlistentry>-->
168
169 <varlistentry id="pkexec">
170 <term><command>pkexec</command></term>
171 <listitem>
172 <para>allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.</para>
173 <indexterm zone="polkit pkexec">
174 <primary sortas="b-pkexec">pkexec</primary>
175 </indexterm>
176 </listitem>
177 </varlistentry>
178
179<!-- <varlistentry id="polkit-agent-helper-1">
180 <term><command>polkit-agent-helper-1</command></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>does this .....</para>
183 <indexterm zone="polkit polkit-agent-helper-1">
184 <primary sortas="b-polkit-agent-helper-1">polkit-agent-helper-1</primary>
185 </indexterm>
186 </listitem>
187 </varlistentry>-->
188
189 <varlistentry id="polkitd-0.94">
190 <term><command>polkitd</command></term>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
193 <application>D-Bus</application> service on the system message bus.</para>
194 <indexterm zone="polkit polkitd-0.94">
195 <primary sortas="b-polkitd">polkitd</primary>
196 </indexterm>
197 </listitem>
198 </varlistentry>
199
200 <varlistentry id="libpolkit-agent-1">
201 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-agent-1.{so,a}</filename></term>
202 <listitem>
203 <para>contains the <application>polkit</application> authentication
204 agent API functions.</para>
205 <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-agent-1">
206 <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-agent-1">libpolkit-agent-1.{so,a}</primary>
207 </indexterm>
208 </listitem>
209 </varlistentry>
210
211 <varlistentry id="libpolkit-backend-1">
212 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-backend-1.{so,a}</filename></term>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>contains the <application>polkit</application> backend API
215 functions.</para>
216 <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-backend-1">
217 <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-backend-1">libpolkit-backend-1.{so,a}</primary>
218 </indexterm>
219 </listitem>
220 </varlistentry>
221
222 <varlistentry id="libpolkit-gobject-1">
223 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-gobject-1.{so,a}</filename></term>
224 <listitem>
225 <para>contains the <application>polkit</application> authorization API
226 functions.</para>
227 <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-gobject-1">
228 <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-gobject-1">libpolkit-gobject-1.{so,a}</primary>
229 </indexterm>
230 </listitem>
231 </varlistentry>
232
233 <varlistentry id="libnullbackend">
234 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libnullbackend.{so,a}</filename></term>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>is an extension library.</para>
237 <indexterm zone="polkit libnullbackend">
238 <primary sortas="c-libnullbackend">libnullbackend.{so,a}</primary>
239 </indexterm>
240 </listitem>
241 </varlistentry>
242
243 <varlistentry id="libpkexec-action-lookup">
244 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpkexec-action-lookup.{so,a}</filename></term>
245 <listitem>
246 <para>is an extension library.</para>
247 <indexterm zone="polkit libpkexec-action-lookup">
248 <primary sortas="c-libpkexec-action-lookup">libpkexec-action-lookup.{so,a}</primary>
249 </indexterm>
250 </listitem>
251 </varlistentry>
252
253 </variablelist>
254
255 </sect2>
256
257</sect1>
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