polkit

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. See the polkit(8) manual page for more detailed information.

Documentation

• Latest polkit Documentation

Source Code

• View latest code on-line: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/tree/
• View latest changelog/commitlog online: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/log/

GIT

There are guides for using git with freedesktop.org projects. There is also another tutorial at IBM Developerworks site. You can also take a look at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/tree/HACKING.

Releases

• Releases are announced on the mailing list
• Tarballs are available from this site

Bugs

• Open Bugs
• Enter a new bug

Communicate

• Mailing Lists:

  • polkit discussion

    polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org