polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
Latest documentation, reference manual and API description of polkit can be still found
on project's previous instance of Gitlab Pages
https://polkit.pages.freedesktop.org/polkit
Older reference can be found at
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/
Latest releases are available at the Release page.
Older releases are still available as tarballs at
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
Please report non-security bugs via the polkit's GitHub issues at https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/issues
The other way, in case of non-security issues, is to contact developers via official polkit's FreeDesktop.org mailing list at
polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Please report any security issues not yet known to public
by sending mail to polkit-security@redhat.com.
Thank you.
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.
Your pull requests and patch suggestions are welcome! If you want to contribute, a pull request on this GitHub project is a preferred way, yet not the only one. Please consult other options with this upsteam's maintainers.
Thank you in advance.