PolicyKit

Download Source:	http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit-0.9.tar.gz

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Introduction to PolicyKit

PolicyKit is a framework for defining policy for system-wide components and for desktop pieces to configure it. It is used by HAL.

Project Homepage: Unknown

Dependencies

Required

• D-BUS Glib
• Glib2
• Linux-PAM
• xmlto

Optional

• GIT (To get the latest source)
• Gtk-Doc
• intltool (Required for Git)
• SELinux

PolKit User/Group

groupadd -g 26 polkit &&
useradd -c "Policy Kit Daemon User" -d /dev/null \
        -u 26 -g polkit -s /bin/false polkit

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/PolicyKit --localstatedir=/var \
    --with-polkit-user=polkit --with-polkit-group=polkit &&
make

Install the package

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/PolicyKit --localstatedir=/var \
    --with-polkit-user=polkit --with-polkit-group=polkit &&
make

Install the package

make install

N32

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib32/PolicyKit --localstatedir=/var \
    --libdir=/usr/lib32 --with-pam-module-dir=/lib32/security \
    --with-polkit-user=polkit --with-polkit-group=polkit &&
make

Install the package

make install

64Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/PolicyKit --localstatedir=/var \
    --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-pam-module-dir=/lib64/security \
    --with-polkit-user=polkit --with-polkit-group=polkit &&
make

Install the package

make install

Contents

Installed Programs:	polkit-grant-privilege polkit-is-rivileged polkit-list-privileges polkit-revoke-privilege polkitd
Installed Libraries:	libpolkit.{so,a,la} libpolkit-grant.{so,a,la} /lib/security/pam_polkit_console.{so,a,la}
Installed Directories:	/etc/PolicyKit/privilege.d /var/run/polkit-console