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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-04-18 17:47:51 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2020-04-21 17:10:02 +0200
commit98ab0daeeb07aa3333ff0b1bdba990af6d6e4924 (patch)
treee8e1cf26a49ac87a2c81b49a60596564f35d9c97 /man/org.freedesktop.hostname1.xml
parent10d5ce0aa5cffe9c16474fde2c8010a5f6ac5db2 (diff)
downloadsystemd-98ab0daeeb07aa3333ff0b1bdba990af6d6e4924.tar.gz
docs: use "polkit" to refer to PolicyKit
See d35f51ea848ca76bd3747db69e8c5dd864e82bc3 for justification. First use in each file is turned into a link to the documentation page.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/org.freedesktop.hostname1.xml b/man/org.freedesktop.hostname1.xml
index f6eb9f3545..406a6a369e 100644
--- a/man/org.freedesktop.hostname1.xml
+++ b/man/org.freedesktop.hostname1.xml
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ node /org/freedesktop/hostname1 {
<para>Whenever the hostname or other metadata is changed via the daemon,
<function>PropertyChanged</function> signals are sent out to subscribed clients. Changing a hostname
- using this interface is authenticated via PolicyKit.</para>
+ using this interface is authenticated via
+ <ulink url="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/">polkit</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ node /org/freedesktop/hostname1 {
<para><function>GetProductUUID()</function> returns the "product uuid" as exposed by the kernel based
on DMI information in <filename>/sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid</filename>. Reading the file directly
- requires root privileges, and this method allows access to unprivileged clients through the PolicyKit
+ requires root privileges, and this method allows access to unprivileged clients through the polkit
framework.</para>
<para><varname>KernelName</varname>, <varname>KernelRelease</varname>, and
@@ -256,10 +257,10 @@ node /org/freedesktop/hostname1 {
<refsect2>
<title>Security</title>
- <para>The <varname>interactive</varname> boolean parameters can be used to control whether PolicyKit
+ <para>The <varname>interactive</varname> boolean parameters can be used to control whether polkit
should interactively ask the user for authentication credentials if required.</para>
- <para>The PolicyKit action for <function>SetHostname()</function> is
+ <para>The polkit action for <function>SetHostname()</function> is
<interfacename>org.freedesktop.hostname1.set-hostname</interfacename>. For
<function>SetStaticHostname()</function> and <function>SetPrettyHostname()</function> it is
<interfacename>org.freedesktop.hostname1.set-static-hostname</interfacename>. For