POLKITD(8)                          polkitd                         POLKITD(8)

NAME
       polkitd - The polkit system daemon

SYNOPSIS
       polkitd

DESCRIPTION
       polkitd provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 D-Bus service on the
       system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start
       this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) or
       systemd(1) whenever an application calls into the service.

       polkitd must be started with superuser privileges but drops privileges
       early by switching to the unprivileged polkitd system user.

       See the polkit(8) man page for more information.

AUTHOR
       Written by David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> with a lot of help from
       many others.

BUGS
       Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel
       mailing list, see the link
       https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/ on how to
       subscribe.

SEE ALSO
       polkit(8), pkaction(1), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1), pkttyagent(1), dbus-
       daemon(1), systemd(1)

polkit                             May 2009                         POLKITD(8)