OVERVIEW ======== polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. DOCUMENTATION ============= Latest documentation, reference manual and API description of polkit can be found at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/ RELEASES ======== Older releases of polkit (until 0.115) are available in compressed tarballs from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/ Latest releases are available in compressed tarballs from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/releases To verify the authenticity of the compressed tarball, use this command $ gpg --verify polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz.sign polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz gpg: Signature made Tue 23 Apr 2019 04:19:29 PM CEST using RSA key ID FFDCE258 gpg: Good signature from "Jan Rybar (Red Hat) <jrybar@redhat.com>" Public key available here http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8CEB3030FFDCE258 BUGS and DEVELOPMENT ==================== Please report non-security bugs via the freedesktop.org GitLab at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues SECURITY ISSUES =============== Please report any security issues not yet known to public by creating new issue and checking the "This issue is confidential" checkbox. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues