Polkit
Polkit
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/
framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
It is a framework for centralizing the decision making process with respect to granting access to privileged operations for unprivileged (desktop) applications.
Download
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/policykit-1/policykit-1_0.105.orig.tar.gz
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28 November 2014
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License: lgpl-2.0+
License
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Debian: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
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28 November 2014
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License: apache-2.0
Leaders and contributors
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Debian (Ref) (R) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/policykit-1 | |
| Download | http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/ |
Software prerequisites
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