Package: policykit (0.9-4) [debports]

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framework for managing administrative policies and privileges

PolicyKit 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 (like calling the HAL Mount() method) for unprivileged (desktop) applications.

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• dep: consolekit

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• dep: dbus

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• dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-5)

  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

• dep: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2)

  simple interprocess messaging system (library)

• dep: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78)

  simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-based shared library)

• dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0)

  GLib library of C routines

• dep: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)

  Pluggable Authentication Modules library

• dep: libpolkit-dbus2 (>= 0.7)

  library for accessing PolicyKit via D-Bus

• dep: libpolkit-grant2 (>= 0.7)

  library for obtaining privileges via PolicyKit

• dep: libpolkit2 (>= 0.8)

  library for accessing PolicyKit

• sug: policykit-gnome

  GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit

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