The PolicyKit-kde manual

Daniel Nicoletti

Revision 0.9.0 (2009-01-25)

PolicyKit-kde is a KDE front end to the PolicyKit system that is used to manages authentication.

PolicyKit is a toolkit designed to allow unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. It does that by centralizing information of actions and authorized applications.

Table of Contents

1. Overview

2. How it works

Overview
The problem
The solution

3. Authorization manager

Manual

4. Authorization Agent

Manual
Authorization Agent dialog

5. Credits and License