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Title: Polkit Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:polkit URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkit Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT Polkit is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones, allowing a level of control of centralized system policy. It is developed and maintained by David Zeuthen, a former employee of Red Hat, and hosted by the freedesktop.org project. It is published as free software under the terms of version 2 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.