## polkitd

polkitd — PolicyKit daemon

## Synopsis

`polkitd`

## DESCRIPTION

polkitd provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 D-Bus service on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application calls into the service.

## AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen `<davidz@redhat.com>` with a lot of help from many others.

## BUGS

Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel mailing list, see the link http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel on how to subscribe.

## SEE ALSO

polkit(8)