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OVERVIEW
========

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations.  It is
used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged
processes.


DOCUMENTATION
=============

Latest documentation, reference manual and API description of polkit can be found at

 https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/


RELEASES
========

Older releases of polkit (until 0.120) are available in compressed tarballs from

 http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/

Latest releases are available in compressed tarballs from

 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/releases


To verify the authenticity of the compressed tarball, use this command

 $ gpg --verify polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz.sign polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz
 gpg: Signature made Tue 23 Apr 2019 04:19:29 PM CEST using RSA key ID FFDCE258
 gpg: Good signature from "Jan Rybar (Red Hat) <jrybar@redhat.com>"

Public key available here
 http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8CEB3030FFDCE258


BUGS and DEVELOPMENT
====================

Please report non-security bugs via the freedesktop.org GitLab at

 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues


SECURITY ISSUES
===============

Please report any security issues not yet known to public
by creating new issue and checking the "This issue is confidential" checkbox.

 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues