PolicyKit
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| PolicyKit | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | David Zeuthen |
| Latest release | 0.8 / December 18, 2007 |
| OS | Unix-like |
| Genre | Privilege authorization |
| License | MIT License[1] |
| Website | http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=summary |
PolicyKit is an application development toolkit for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides the capability for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. In contrast to systems like sudo, it does not grant root permission to an entire process, but rather allows a finer level of control centralized system policy. It is produced by the freedesktop.org project.
PolicyKit is used in Ubuntu (since 8.04) and Fedora (since 8).
[edit] References
- FreeDesktop.org Project Page for PolicyKit. freedesktop.org. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- PolicyKit 0.5 Specification. freedesktop.org. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
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