Package: pkexec
Source: policykit-1
Version: 127-2ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Installed-Size: 54
Depends: polkitd (= 127-2ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= 2.80.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpolkit-agent-1-0 (= 127-2ubuntu1), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 127-2ubuntu1)
Breaks: policykit-1 (<< 0.120-4~)
Replaces: policykit-1 (<< 0.120-4~)
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/
Description: run commands as another user with polkit authorization
 polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy
 that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
 It was previously named PolicyKit.
 .
 pkexec is a setuid program to allow certain users to run commands as
 root or as a different user, similar to sudo. Unlike sudo, it carries
 out authentication and authorization by sending a request to polkit,
 so it uses desktop environments' familiar prompting mechanisms for
 authentication and uses polkit policies for authorization decisions.
 .
 By default, members of the 'sudo' Unix group can use pkexec to run any
 command after authenticating. The authorization rules can be changed by
 the local system administrator.
 .
 If this functionality is not required, removing the pkexec package will
 reduce security risk by removing a setuid program.
Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
