While PolicyKit has been replaced by polkit (which rewrote system component, breaking backwards compatibility) in many distributions, Debian continues to use PolicyKit from Debian 7 wheezy through Debian 10 buster.

In a typical use of polkit, an ... of setuid, which avoids several common sources of security vulnerabilities. This package provides the polkitd D-Bus service and supporting programs....

polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. It was previously named PolicyKit. This package configures the polkitd D-Bus service to read default authorization policies from .desktop-style files ...

sid (unstable) (admin): transitional package for polkitd and pkexec 124-2 [debports]: ia64 122-4 [debports]: riscv64

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In a typical use of polkit, an ... of setuid, which avoids several common sources of security vulnerabilities. This package provides the polkitd D-Bus service and supporting programs....

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sid (unstable) (debug): debug symbols for polkitd 127-2 [debports]: alpha hppa m68k ppc64 sh4 sparc64 x32 127-1 [debports]: loong64 124-2 [debports]: ia64 122-4 [debports]: riscv64 · bookworm (oldstable) (admin): transitional package for JavaScript backend for polkitd 122-3: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel ppc64el s390x

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polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. It was previously named PolicyKit. This transitional package depends on polkitd, the system service used by polkit, and pkexec, a setuid program analogous ...

dep: polkitd · framework for managing administrative policies and privileges · or policykit-1 · transitional package for polkitd and pkexec ·

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For convenience, the libpolkit-gobject-1 library wraps the polkit D-Bus API and is usable from any C/C++ program as well as higher-level languages supporting GObjectIntrospection[2] such as JavaScript and Python. A mechanism can also use the D-Bus API or the pkcheck(1) command to check authorizations.

/usr/bin/pkaction /usr/bin/pkcheck /usr/bin/pkttyagent /usr/lib/pam.d/polkit-1 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd /usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit-agent-helper.socket /usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit-agent-helper@.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service /usr/lib/sysusers.d/polkit.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/polkit-tmpfiles.conf /usr/libexec/polkit-agent-helper-1 /usr/share/bug/polkitd/control /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf /u

Keep the polkitd-javascript package as a transitional package. -- Simon McVittie <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:19:38 +0100 ... policykit-1 (121+compat0.1-2) experimental; urgency=medium * Add a NEWS file describing the change of security policy format * d/control: policykit-1 Recommends polkitd-pkla. This arranges for upgrades from Debian 11 to install polkitd-pkla by default, preserving previous functionality, while also allowing it to be removed for legacy-free systems.

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