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polkit-127p0

framework for granting privileged operations to users

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Description

polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes: it is a framework for centralizing the decision making process with respect to granting access to privileged operations for unprivileged applications.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/polkit
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils, security, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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