# polkitd

polkitd

8

polkitd

The polkit system daemon

          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 or

systemd

1 whenever an application calls into the service.

`polkitd` must be started with superuser privileges but drops privileges early by switching to the unprivileged polkitd system user.

See the

polkit

8 man page for more information.

## 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 on how to subscribe.

## SEE ALSO

polkit

8,

pkaction

1,

pkcheck

1,

pkexec

1,

pkttyagent

1,

dbus-daemon

1,

systemd

1