Polkit
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Polkit (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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