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Not a new direction

Posted Nov 19, 2009 1:51 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Not a new direction by nix
Parent article: Fedora 12 lets unprivileged users install packages

For Fedora 12, the following man pages are useful

pklocalauthority(8) polkit(8) polkitd(8) pkaction(1), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1)

It could be better but it is not empty either.

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Not a new direction

Posted Nov 19, 2009 1:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Aha. I'd somehow missed pkaction(1), without which everything is very
opaque. TBH though that blog post on changing settings with polkit was
better documentation than ahything I've ever seen with polkit itself...

Not a new direction

Posted Nov 19, 2009 4:15 UTC (Thu) by halfline (guest, #31920) [Link]

As mentioned above, have a look at the polkit man page. PolicyKit is actually very well documented. The main polkit man page describes the architecture, gives summaries and links to the tools (including pkaction) and examples for configuring policy. It even has ascii screenshots. To be honest, I haven't come across many projects with better documentation.