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OVERVIEW

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

DOCUMENTATION

Latest documentation, reference manual and API description of polkit can be found at

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/

RELEASES

Latest releases are available in compressed tarballs from

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/

To verify the authenticity of the compressed tarball, use this command

$ gpg --verify polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz.sign polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz
$ gpg: Signature made Tue 23 Apr 2019 04:19:29 PM CEST using RSA key ID FFDCE258
$ gpg: Good signature from "Jan Rybar (Red Hat) <jrybar@redhat.com>"

Public key available at

https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/7FFB7D6BD83147D74284E3178CEB3030FFDCE258

BUGS and DEVELOPMENT

Please report non-security bugs via the polkit's freedesktop.org GitLab at

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues

SECURITY ISSUES

Please report any security issues not yet known to public by creating new issue and checking the This issue is confidential checkbox.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues

BUILD INSTRUCTIONS

polkit uses meson build system for configuration with ninja as backend and gcc as compiler.
To configure and compile your copy of polkit tarball, simply follow meson build instructions in the following manner:

$ meson setup [[-D option]...] target_directory
$ meson compile -C target_directory
...
# meson install -C target_directory

List of available configuration options can be obtained with meson configure command.

I WANT TO CONTRIBUTE

Your merge requests and patch suggestions are welcome! If you want to contribute, a merge request on this Gitlab instance is a preferred way, yet not the only one. Please consult other options with this upsteam's maintainers.

Should you already have a freedesktop.org Gitlab account, please file your merge request. In this case, please don't force-push any further changes into the merge request and add a new commit into the MR instead.

Thank you in advance.