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 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/

RELEASES

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) <[email protected]>"

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 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

[email protected]

SECURITY ISSUES

Please report any security issues not yet known to public by sending mail to [email protected] or use GitHub's button for reporting a vulnerability when creating an issue.
Thank you.

BUILD INSTRUCTIONS

See Building polkit for dependencies, Meson configuration, compilation, and installation instructions.

I WANT TO CONTRIBUTE

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.

AI-ASSISTED CONTRIBUTIONS

If you use an AI tool (such as a language model or code assistant) to help write code, draft a bug report, or otherwise prepare your contribution, please state this in the description of your pull request or issue. A brief note mentioning which tool was used and the extent of its involvement is sufficient.

Please use AI assistance thoughtfully and with consideration for the reviewers. A large volume of auto-generated content — code, comments, or descriptions — tends to increase the review burden rather than reduce it, and may slow down rather than speed up the acceptance of your contribution.

Please keep in mind that you remain fully responsible for any AI-generated content you submit. By contributing it, you confirm that you have reviewed it and stand behind its correctness.

Thank you in advance.