PolicyKit
Sign in to savePolkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. Polkit allows a level of control of centralized system policy. It is developed and maintained by David Zeuthen from Red Hat and hosted by the freedesktop.org project. It is published as free software under the terms of version 2 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Polkit
- Software.title
- polkit
- Software.screenshot
- PolicyKit-KDEPlasma5.png
- Software.screenshot size
- 300px
- Software.caption
- KDE Plasma-based front-end
- Software.developer
- David Zeuthen, Red Hat
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux, Unix-like
- Software.genre
- Privilege authorization
- Software.license
- LGPL (free software)
- Bug.name
- PwnKit
- Bug.discoverer
- Qualys Research Team
- Bug.affected hardware
- All architectures
- Bug.affected software
- Polkit (all versions prior to discovery)
- Bug.used by
- Default on every major Linux distribution
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Developer
- Red Hat
- Official website
- github.com/polkit-org/polkit
- Image
- PolicyKit-KDE.png
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- software version identifier
- 127
- Commons category
- Polkit
- programmed in
- C
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- source code repository URL
- github.com/polkit-org/polkit
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- inception
- 2007-06-20
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Article · Español
PolicyKit es una aplicación de herramientas de desarrollo para el control de todo el sistema de privilegios en sistemas operativos del tipo UNIX. Proporciona la capacidad de que procesos no privilegiado puedan comunicarse con procesos privilegiados. En contraste con los sistemas como sudo, no concede permisos de root a todo un proceso, sino que permite un mayor nivel de control centralizado del sistema. Es producido por el proyecto freedesktop.org. PolicyKit es utilizado en Ubuntu (desde 8.04), Fedora (desde 8) y OpenSUSE (desde 10.3).
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