polkit 121

Authorization API for privilege management

Polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. It is a framework for centralizing the decision making process with respect to granting access to privileged operations for unprivileged applications.

Outputs: out
Website: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/
Licenses: LGPL 2.0+
Package source: gnu/packages/polkit.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install polkit 121 as follows:

guix install polkit@121

Or install the latest version:

guix install polkit

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.