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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 "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/polkit-&polkit-version;.tar.gz">
8 <!ENTITY polkit-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY polkit-md5sum "a6efe21d021fafe4191ee30331ef801c">
10 <!ENTITY polkit-size "1.6 MB">
11 <!ENTITY polkit-buildsize "12 MB">
12 <!ENTITY polkit-time "0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="polkit" xreflabel="Polkit-&polkit-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="polkit.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <date>$Date$</date>
20 </sect1info>
21
22 <title>Polkit-&polkit-version;</title>
23
24 <indexterm zone="polkit">
25 <primary sortas="a-Polkit">Polkit</primary>
26 </indexterm>
27
28 <sect2 role="package">
29 <title>Introduction to Polkit</title>
30
31 <para>
32 <application>Polkit</application> is a toolkit for defining and handling
33 authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to
34 communicate with privileged processes.
35 </para>
36
37 &lfs110a_checked;
38
39 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
40 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
41 <listitem>
42 <para>
43 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-http;"/>
44 </para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>
48 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-ftp;"/>
49 </para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>
53 Download MD5 sum: &polkit-md5sum;
54 </para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>
58 Download size: &polkit-size;
59 </para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 Estimated disk space required: &polkit-buildsize;
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>
68 Estimated build time: &polkit-time;
69 </para>
70 </listitem>
71 </itemizedlist>
72
73<!-- With the move to meson, the patch is no longer needed
74 <bridgehead renderas="sect3"
75 revision="sysv">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
76 <itemizedlist spacing="compact" revision="sysv">
77 <listitem>
78 <para>
79 Recommended patch:
80 <ulink url="&patch-root;/polkit-&polkit-version;-fix_elogind_detection-1.patch"/>
81 </para>
82 </listitem>
83 </itemizedlist>
84-->
85
86 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Polkit Dependencies</bridgehead>
87
88 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
89 <para role="required">
90 <xref linkend="glib2"/> and
91 <xref linkend="js78"/>
92 </para>
93
94 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
95 <para role="recommended">
96 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
97 <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
98 <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>
99 <phrase revision="sysv">
100 and <xref role="first" linkend="elogind"/>
101 </phrase>
102 </para>
103
104 <note>
105 <para>
106 Since <phrase revision="sysv"><command>elogind</command></phrase>
107 <phrase revision="systemd"><command>systemd-logind</command></phrase>
108 uses PAM to register user sessions, it is a good idea to build
109 <application>Polkit</application> with PAM support so
110 <phrase revision="sysv"><command>elogind</command></phrase>
111 <phrase revision="systemd"><command>systemd-logind</command></phrase>
112 can track <application>Polkit</application> sessions.
113 </para>
114 </note>
115
116
117 <!-- Due to the fact that meson will not autodetect g-i and
118 has it set to required unless you pass an option, and the likelihood
119 of users ignoring a command explanation and then sending in mails
120 regarding KDE or GNOME not working after installing polkit, let's move
121 it to recommended. See #15640 for logic
122 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
123 <para role="optional">
124 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
125 </para>
126 -->
127
128 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
129 <para role="optional">
130 <xref linkend="dbus-python"/> and
131 <xref linkend="python-dbusmock"/> (for tests), and
132 <!--<xref linkend="DocBook"/>, (Part of libxslt's chain)
133 <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/>,-->
134 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>
135 </para>
136
137 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" revision="systemd">Required Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
138 <para role="required" revision="systemd">
139 <xref role="runtime" linkend="systemd"/>
140 </para>
141
142 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="polkit-agent" xreflabel="Polkit Authentication Agent">
143 Optional Runtime Dependencies
144 </bridgehead>
145 <para role="optional">
146 One polkit authentication agent for using polkit in the graphical
147 environment:
148 <application>polkit-kde-agent</application> in
149 <xref role="runtime" linkend="plasma5-build"/> for KDE,
150 the agent built in
151 <xref role="runtime" linkend="gnome-shell"/> for GNOME3,
152 <xref role="runtime" linkend="polkit-gnome"/> for XFCE, and
153 <application>lxpolkit</application> in
154 <xref role="runtime" linkend="lxsession"/> for LXDE.
155 </para>
156
157 <note>
158 <para>
159 If <xref linkend="libxslt"/> is installed,
160 then <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> are
161 required. If you have installed <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, but you do
162 not want to install any of the DocBook packages mentioned, you will
163 need to use <option>-Dman=false</option> in the instructions
164 below.
165 </para>
166 </note>
167
168 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
169 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/polkit"/>
170 </para>
171 </sect2>
172
173 <sect2 role="installation">
174 <title>Installation of Polkit</title>
175
176 <para>
177 There should be a dedicated user and group to take control
178 of the <command>polkitd</command> daemon after it is
179 started. Issue the following commands as the
180 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
181 </para>
182
183<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -fg 27 polkitd &amp;&amp;
184useradd -c "PolicyKit Daemon Owner" -d /etc/polkit-1 -u 27 \
185 -g polkitd -s /bin/false polkitd</userinput></screen>
186
187<!-- All of this is irrelevant with meson
188 <note revision="systemd">
189 <para>
190 When building <application>Polkit</application> with
191 <application>systemd</application> logind support, the
192 <command>configure</command> script explicitly checks if
193 system is booted using <application>systemd</application>.
194 This can cause problems if building the package in chroot,
195 where the <command>configure</command> would fail to
196 detect <application>systemd</application>. To workaround
197 the problem, simply run the following command:
198 </para>
199
200<screen><userinput>sed -i "s:/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/:/sys:g" configure</userinput></screen>
201 </note>
202
203 <para revision="sysv">
204 Fix an issue introduced in recent <application>Polkit</application>
205 releases with elogind:
206 </para>
207
208<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../polkit-&polkit-version;-fix_elogind_detection-1.patch &amp;&amp;
209autoreconf -fv</userinput></screen>
210-->
211
212 <para>
213 First, fix problems with setting permissions during installation and with
214 meson-0.60.0:
215 </para>
216
217<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/0,/s/^/#/' -i meson_post_install.py &amp;&amp;
218sed '/policy,/d' -i actions/meson.build \
219 -i src/examples/meson.build</userinput></screen>
220 <para>
221 Install <application>Polkit</application> by running the following
222 commands:
223 </para>
224
225<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
226cd build &amp;&amp;
227
228meson --prefix=/usr \
229 -Dman=true \
230 -Dsession_tracking=libsystemd-login \
231 --buildtype=release \
232 .. &amp;&amp;
233ninja</userinput></screen>
234
235<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
236cd build &amp;&amp;
237
238meson --prefix=/usr \
239 -Dman=true \
240 -Dsession_tracking=libelogind \
241 -Dsystemdsystemunitdir=/tmp \
242 --buildtype=release \
243 .. &amp;&amp;
244ninja</userinput></screen>
245
246<!--
247 <para>
248 To test the results, first ensure that the system
249 <application>D-Bus</application> daemon is running.
250 Then run <command>make check</command>.
251 </para>
252-->
253
254<!-- The subprojects directory which contains a wrapper for 'mocklibc'
255 is not shipped in the tarball like it should be. Whenever that is
256 fixed, -Dtests=true and ninja test is the ticket. -->
257
258 <para>
259 This package does not ship with a working test suite.
260 </para>
261
262 <para>
263 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
264 </para>
265
266<screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
267
268<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>ninja install &amp;&amp;
269rm -v /tmp/*.service</userinput></screen>
270
271 </sect2>
272
273 <sect2 role="commands">
274 <title>Command Explanations</title>
275
276 <!--
277 <para revision="sysv">
278 <parameter>- -disable-libsystemd-login</parameter>: This switch forces
279 polkit to build with elogind support (if available) rather than
280 systemd-logind.
281 </para>
282
283
284 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
285 href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
286 -->
287
288 <para>
289 <option>-Dauthfw=shadow</option>: This switch enables the
290 package to use the <application>Shadow</application> rather than the
291 <application>Linux PAM</application> Authentication framework. Use it
292 if you have not installed <application>Linux PAM</application>.
293 </para>
294
295 <!--
296 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
297 href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
298 -->
299
300 <para>
301 <option>-Dintrospection=false</option>: Use this option if you are certain
302 that you do not need gobject-introspection files for polkit, or do not have
303 gobject-introspection installed.
304 </para>
305
306 <para>
307 <option>-Dman=false</option>: Use this option to disable generating and
308 installing manual pages. This is useful if libxslt is not installed.
309 </para>
310
311 <para>
312 <option>-Dexamples=true</option>: Use this option to build the example
313 programs.
314 </para>
315
316 <para>
317 <option>-Dgtk_doc=true</option>: Use this option to enable building and
318 installing the API documentation.
319 </para>
320
321 </sect2>
322
323 <sect2 role="configuration">
324 <title>Configuring Polkit</title>
325
326 <sect3>
327 <title>PAM Configuration</title>
328
329 <note>
330 <para>
331 If you did not build <application>Polkit</application> with
332 <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you can skip this
333 section.
334 </para>
335 </note>
336
337 <para>
338 If you have built <application>Polkit</application> with
339 <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you need to modify
340 the default PAM configuration file which was installed by default to get
341 <application>Polkit</application> to work correctly with BLFS. Issue the
342 following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
343 user to create the configuration file for <application>Linux PAM</application>:
344 </para>
345
346<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 &lt;&lt; "EOF"
347<literal># Begin /etc/pam.d/polkit-1
348
349auth include system-auth
350account include system-account
351password include system-password
352session include system-session
353
354# End /etc/pam.d/polkit-1</literal>
355EOF</userinput></screen>
356
357 </sect3>
358
359 </sect2>
360
361 <sect2 role="content">
362 <title>Contents</title>
363
364 <segmentedlist>
365 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
366 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
367 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
368
369 <seglistitem>
370 <seg>
371 pkaction, pkcheck, <!--pk-example-frobnicate,--> pkexec,
372 pkttyagent and polkitd
373 </seg>
374 <seg>
375 libpolkit-agent-1.so and
376 libpolkit-gobject-1.so
377 </seg>
378 <seg>
379 /etc/polkit-1,
380 /usr/include/polkit-1,
381 /usr/lib/polkit-1,
382 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1 and
383 /usr/share/polkit-1
384 </seg>
385 </seglistitem>
386 </segmentedlist>
387
388 <variablelist>
389 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
390 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
391 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
392
393 <varlistentry id="pkaction">
394 <term><command>pkaction</command></term>
395 <listitem>
396 <para>
397 is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions
398 </para>
399 <indexterm zone="polkit pkaction">
400 <primary sortas="b-pkaction">pkaction</primary>
401 </indexterm>
402 </listitem>
403 </varlistentry>
404
405 <varlistentry id="pkcheck">
406 <term><command>pkcheck</command></term>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>
409 is used to check whether a process is authorized for action
410 </para>
411 <indexterm zone="polkit pkcheck">
412 <primary sortas="b-pkcheck">pkcheck</primary>
413 </indexterm>
414 </listitem>
415 </varlistentry>
416
417<!--
418 <varlistentry id="pk-example-frobnicate">
419 <term><command>pk-example-frobnicate</command></term>
420 <listitem>
421 <para>
422 is an example program to test the <command>pkexec</command>
423 command
424 </para>
425 <indexterm zone="polkit pk-example-frobnicate">
426 <primary sortas="b-pk-example-frobnicate">pk-example-frobnicate</primary>
427 </indexterm>
428 </listitem>
429 </varlistentry>
430-->
431
432 <varlistentry id="pkexec">
433 <term><command>pkexec</command></term>
434 <listitem>
435 <para>
436 allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user
437 </para>
438 <indexterm zone="polkit pkexec">
439 <primary sortas="b-pkexec">pkexec</primary>
440 </indexterm>
441 </listitem>
442 </varlistentry>
443
444 <varlistentry id="pkttyagent">
445 <term><command>pkttyagent</command></term>
446 <listitem>
447 <para>
448 is used to start a textual authentication agent for the subject
449 </para>
450 <indexterm zone="polkit pkttyagent">
451 <primary sortas="b-pkttyagent">pkttyagent</primary>
452 </indexterm>
453 </listitem>
454 </varlistentry>
455
456 <varlistentry id="polkitd">
457 <term><command>polkitd</command></term>
458 <listitem>
459 <para>
460 provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 <application>D-Bus</application>
461 service on the system message bus
462 </para>
463 <indexterm zone="polkit polkitd">
464 <primary sortas="b-polkitd">polkitd</primary>
465 </indexterm>
466 </listitem>
467 </varlistentry>
468
469 <varlistentry id="libpolkit-agent-1">
470 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpolkit-agent-1.so</filename></term>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>
473 contains the <application>Polkit</application> authentication
474 agent API functions
475 </para>
476 <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-agent-1">
477 <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-agent-1">libpolkit-agent-1.so</primary>
478 </indexterm>
479 </listitem>
480 </varlistentry>
481
482 <varlistentry id="libpolkit-gobject-1">
483 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpolkit-gobject-1.so</filename></term>
484 <listitem>
485 <para>
486 contains the <application>Polkit</application> authorization API functions
487 </para>
488 <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-gobject-1">
489 <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-gobject-1">libpolkit-gobject-1.so</primary>
490 </indexterm>
491 </listitem>
492 </varlistentry>
493
494 </variablelist>
495
496 </sect2>
497
498</sect1>
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