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.TH "POLKITD" "8" "May 2009" "polkit" "polkitd"
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.SH "NAME"
polkitd \- PolicyKit daemon
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBpolkitd\fR\ 'u
\fBpolkitd\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBpolkitd\fR
provides the
\fIorg\&.freedesktop\&.PolicyKit1\fR
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
\fBdbus-daemon\fR(1)
whenever an application calls into the service\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
Written by David Zeuthen
with a lot of help from many others\&.
.SH "BUGS"
.PP
Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit\-devel mailing list, see the link
\m[blue]\fB\%http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel\fR\m[]
on how to subscribe\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBpolkit\fR(8)