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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
8 "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/polkit-&polkit-version;.tar.gz">
9 <!ENTITY polkit-download-ftp " ">
10 <!ENTITY polkit-md5sum "4b37258583393e83069a0e2e89c0162a">
11 <!ENTITY polkit-size "1.5 MB">
12 <!ENTITY polkit-buildsize "15 MB (with tests)">
13 <!ENTITY polkit-time "0.4 SBU (with tests)">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="polkit" xreflabel="Polkit-&polkit-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="polkit.html"?>
18
19 <sect1info>
20 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
21 <date>$Date$</date>
22 </sect1info>
23
24 <title>Polkit-&polkit-version;</title>
25
26 <indexterm zone="polkit">
27 <primary sortas="a-Polkit">Polkit</primary>
28 </indexterm>
29
30 <sect2 role="package">
31 <title>Introduction to Polkit</title>
32
33 <para>
34 <application>Polkit</application> is a toolkit for defining and handling
35 authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to
36 communicate with privileged processes.
37 </para>
38
39 &lfs90_checked;
40
41 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
42 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
43 <listitem>
44 <para>
45 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-http;"/>
46 </para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>
50 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-ftp;"/>
51 </para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>
55 Download MD5 sum: &polkit-md5sum;
56 </para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>
60 Download size: &polkit-size;
61 </para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>
65 Estimated disk space required: &polkit-buildsize;
66 </para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>
70 Estimated build time: &polkit-time;
71 </para>
72 </listitem>
73 </itemizedlist>
74
75 <bridgehead renderas="sect3" 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 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Polkit Dependencies</bridgehead>
86
87 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
88 <para role="required">
89 <xref linkend="glib2"/> and
90 <xref linkend="js60"/>
91 </para>
92
93 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
94 <para role="recommended">
95 <xref linkend="linux-pam"/><phrase revision="sysv"> and
96 <xref linkend="elogind"/></phrase>
97 </para>
98
99 <note>
100 <para>
101 Since <phrase revision="sysv"><command>elogind</command></phrase>
102 <phrase revision="systemd"><command>systemd-logind</command></phrase>
103 uses PAM to register user sessions, it is a good idea to build
104 <application>Polkit</application> with PAM support so
105 <phrase revision="sysv"><command>elogind</command></phrase>
106 <phrase revision="systemd"><command>systemd-logind</command></phrase>
107 can track <application>Polkit</application> sessions.
108 </para>
109 </note>
110
111
112 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (Required if building GNOME)</bridgehead>
113 <para role="optional">
114 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
115 </para>
116
117 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
118 <para role="optional">
119 <xref linkend="DocBook"/>,
120 <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/>,
121 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>, and
122 <xref linkend="libxslt"/>
123 </para>
124
125 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" revision="systemd">Required Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
126 <para role="required" revision="systemd">
127 <xref role="runtime" linkend="systemd"/>
128 </para>
129
130 <note>
131 <para>
132 If <xref linkend="libxslt"/> is installed,
133 then <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> are
134 required. If you have installed <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, but you do
135 not want to install any of the DocBook packages mentioned, you will
136 need to use <option>--disable-man-pages</option> in the instructions
137 below.
138 </para>
139 </note>
140
141 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
142 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/polkit"/>
143 </para>
144 </sect2>
145
146 <sect2 role="installation">
147 <title>Installation of Polkit</title>
148
149 <para>
150 There should be a dedicated user and group to take control
151 of the <command>polkitd</command> daemon after it is
152 started. Issue the following commands as the
153 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
154 </para>
155
156<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -fg 27 polkitd &amp;&amp;
157useradd -c "PolicyKit Daemon Owner" -d /etc/polkit-1 -u 27 \
158 -g polkitd -s /bin/false polkitd</userinput></screen>
159
160 <note revision="systemd">
161 <para>
162 When building <application>Polkit</application> with
163 <application>systemd</application> logind support, the
164 <command>configure</command> script explicitly checks if
165 system is booted using <application>systemd</application>.
166 This can cause problems if building the package in chroot,
167 where the <command>configure</command> would fail to
168 detect <application>systemd</application>. To workaround
169 the problem, simply run the following command:
170 </para>
171
172<screen><userinput>sed -i "s:/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/:/sys:g" configure</userinput></screen>
173 </note>
174
175 <para revision="sysv">
176 Fix an issue introduced in recent <application>Polkit</application>
177 realeases with elogind:
178 </para>
179
180<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../polkit-&polkit-version;-fix_elogind_detection-1.patch &amp;&amp;
181autoreconf -fi</userinput></screen>
182 <para>
183 Install <application>Polkit</application> by running the following
184 commands:
185 </para>
186
187<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
188 --sysconfdir=/etc \
189 --localstatedir=/var \
190 --disable-static \
191 --with-os-type=LFS &amp;&amp;
192make</userinput></screen>
193
194<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
195 --sysconfdir=/etc \
196 --localstatedir=/var \
197 --disable-static \
198 --with-os-type=LFS \
199 --enable-libsystemd-login=no &amp;&amp;
200make</userinput></screen>
201
202 <para>
203 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
204 Note that system <application>D-Bus</application> daemon
205 must be running for the testsuite to complete.
206 </para>
207
208 <para>
209 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
210 </para>
211
212<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
213
214 </sect2>
215
216 <sect2 role="commands">
217 <title>Command Explanations</title>
218
219 <para>
220 <option>--with-authfw=shadow</option>: This switch enables the
221 package to use the <application>Shadow</application> rather than the
222 <application>Linux PAM</application> Authentication framework. Use it
223 if you have not installed <application>Linux PAM</application>.
224 </para>
225
226 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
227 href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
228
229 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
230 href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
231
232 <para revision="sysv">
233 <parameter>--enable-libsystemd-login=no</parameter>: This switch forces
234 polkit to build with elogind support (if available) rather than systemd.
235 </para>
236
237 </sect2>
238
239 <sect2 role="configuration">
240 <title>Configuring Polkit</title>
241
242 <sect3>
243 <title>PAM Configuration</title>
244
245 <note>
246 <para>
247 If you did not build <application>Polkit</application> with
248 <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you can skip this section.
249 </para>
250 </note>
251
252 <para>
253 If you have built <application>Polkit</application> with
254 <application>Linux PAM</application> support, you need to modify
255 the default PAM configuration file which was installed by default to get
256 <application>Polkit</application> to work correctly with BLFS. Issue the
257 following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
258 user to create the configuration file for <application>Linux PAM</application>:
259 </para>
260
261<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 &lt;&lt; "EOF"
262<literal># Begin /etc/pam.d/polkit-1
263
264auth include system-auth
265account include system-account
266password include system-password
267session include system-session
268
269# End /etc/pam.d/polkit-1</literal>
270EOF</userinput></screen>
271
272 </sect3>
273
274 </sect2>
275
276 <sect2 role="content">
277 <title>Contents</title>
278
279 <segmentedlist>
280 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
281 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
282 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
283
284 <seglistitem>
285 <seg>
286 pkaction, pkcheck, pk-example-frobnicate, pkexec,
287 pkttyagent and polkitd
288 </seg>
289 <seg>
290 libpolkit-agent-1.so and
291 libpolkit-gobject-1.so
292 </seg>
293 <seg>
294 /etc/polkit-1,
295 /usr/include/polkit-1,
296 /usr/lib/polkit-1,
297 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1 and
298 /usr/share/polkit-1
299 </seg>
300 </seglistitem>
301 </segmentedlist>
302
303 <variablelist>
304 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
305 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
306 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
307
308 <varlistentry id="pkaction">
309 <term><command>pkaction</command></term>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>
312 is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions.
313 </para>
314 <indexterm zone="polkit pkaction">
315 <primary sortas="b-pkaction">pkaction</primary>
316 </indexterm>
317 </listitem>
318 </varlistentry>
319
320 <varlistentry id="pkcheck">
321 <term><command>pkcheck</command></term>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>
324 is used to check whether a process is authorized for action.
325 </para>
326 <indexterm zone="polkit pkcheck">
327 <primary sortas="b-pkcheck">pkcheck</primary>
328 </indexterm>
329 </listitem>
330 </varlistentry>
331
332 <varlistentry id="pk-example-frobnicate">
333 <term><command>pk-example-frobnicate</command></term>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>
336 is an example program to test the <command>pkexec</command>
337 command.
338 </para>
339 <indexterm zone="polkit pk-example-frobnicate">
340 <primary sortas="b-pk-example-frobnicate">pk-example-frobnicate</primary>
341 </indexterm>
342 </listitem>
343 </varlistentry>
344
345 <varlistentry id="pkexec">
346 <term><command>pkexec</command></term>
347 <listitem>
348 <para>
349 allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.
350 </para>
351 <indexterm zone="polkit pkexec">
352 <primary sortas="b-pkexec">pkexec</primary>
353 </indexterm>
354 </listitem>
355 </varlistentry>
356
357 <varlistentry id="pkttyagent">
358 <term><command>pkttyagent</command></term>
359 <listitem>
360 <para>
361 is used to start a textual authentication agent for the subject.
362 </para>
363 <indexterm zone="polkit pkttyagent">
364 <primary sortas="b-pkttyagent">pkttyagent</primary>
365 </indexterm>
366 </listitem>
367 </varlistentry>
368
369 <varlistentry id="polkitd">
370 <term><command>polkitd</command></term>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>
373 provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 <application>D-Bus</application>
374 service on the system message bus.
375 </para>
376 <indexterm zone="polkit polkitd">
377 <primary sortas="b-polkitd">polkitd</primary>
378 </indexterm>
379 </listitem>
380 </varlistentry>
381
382 <varlistentry id="libpolkit-agent-1">
383 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-agent-1.so</filename></term>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>
386 contains the <application>Polkit</application> authentication
387 agent API functions.
388 </para>
389 <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-agent-1">
390 <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-agent-1">libpolkit-agent-1.so</primary>
391 </indexterm>
392 </listitem>
393 </varlistentry>
394
395 <varlistentry id="libpolkit-gobject-1">
396 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpolkit-gobject-1.so</filename></term>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>
399 contains the <application>Polkit</application> authorization API functions.
400 </para>
401 <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-gobject-1">
402 <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-gobject-1">libpolkit-gobject-1.so</primary>
403 </indexterm>
404 </listitem>
405 </varlistentry>
406
407 </variablelist>
408
409 </sect2>
410
411</sect1>
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