The new tutorial series can be found here, please use KAuth when developing with KDE: it's easier, more integrated, and portable · PolicyKit is an authentication system, that lets developers set a policy on specific actions.

On this page, we will take you through the process of setting up PolicyKit, both for local development and on an Ubuntu server.

July 18, 2012 - This tutorial assumes you're using Polkit-Qt >= 0.9.2 · What is cool about PolicyKit and this approach is that we need to write a minimum portion of code, don't need hacks or executon bits, and we actually get root privileges for a minimum portion of code. Suppose we still have our foo application ...

The org.freedesktop.policykit.imply annotation (its value is a string containing a space separated list of action identifiers) can be used to define meta actions. The way it works is that if a subject is authorized for an action with this annotation, then it is also authorized for any action ...

PolicyKit currently supports governance-authoring on Slack, Reddit, and Discourse through custom-coded policies for each platform. See the PolicKit documentation for more information on how to write a policy, and the Metagov Gateway documentation on how to extend those policies using the Gateway plugins.

Customise and merge different voting templates in PolicyKit's no-code editor.

PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes, in order to grant some user the right to perform some tasks in some situations.

May 14, 2026 - This tutorial covers the end-to-end process of securing your Linux desktop environment using PolicyKit MFA: Adding YubiKey Authorization to System Settings and GUI Prompts.

The PolicyKit utility is a framework that provides an authorization API used by privileged programs (also called mechanisms) offering services to unprivileged programs (also called subjects).

PolicyKit empowers online community members to concisely author a wide range of governance procedures and automatically carry out those procedures on their home platforms. Inspired by Nobel economist Elinor Ostrom, we’ve developed a framework that describes governance as a series of actions ...

April 8, 2026 - Explore how to manage system-wide privileges and desktop security policies with PolicyKit to control authorized actions for unprivileged processes on Linux

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/policyconfig-1.dtd"> <policyconfig> <action id="org.gnome.gparted"> <message>Authentication is required to run the GParted Partition Editor</message> <icon_name>gparted</icon_name> <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active> </defaults> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/gparted</annotate> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate> </action> </policyconfig>

This policy performs a 5-minute vote. It is triggered using a Slash command in a Discord channel. For example: ‘/policykit vote should we cancel todays meeting?’

March 7, 2024 - Explore Polkit authorization on Linux with our detailed guide on Polkit and D-Bus, and learn how to use pkaction, pkcheck, and pkexec utilities.

polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. - polkit-org/polkit

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The org.freedesktop.policykit.imply annotation (its value is a string containing a space separated list of action identifiers) can be used to define meta actions. The way it works is that if a subject is authorized for an action with this annotation, then it is also authorized for any action ...

org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority Interface — Authority Interface

>>> from policykit import Conftest >>> cli = Conftest("policy") >>> result = cli.test("deployment.yaml") >>> result ConftestRun(code=1, results=[ConftestResult(filename='/Users/garethr/Documents/conftest/examples/kubernetes/deployment.yaml', Warnings=[], Failures=['hello-kubernetes must include Kubernetes recommended labels: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/common-labels/#labels ', 'Containers must not run as root in Deployment hello-kubernetes', 'Deployment hello-kubernetes must provide app/release labels for pod selectors'], Successes=[])] >>> result.success False