GitHub
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A simple polkit replacement · Issue #4 · sandsmark/polkit-dumb-agent
September 12, 2021 - Write a simple replacement for polkit itself, it's a simple dbus API and 90% of what it provides is never used. Yes, please do it! Polkit is really incredible piece of shit. I’d even try to arr...
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Debian
wiki.debian.org › PolicyKit
PolicyKit - Debian Wiki
While PolicyKit has been replaced by polkit (which rewrote system component, breaking backwards compatibility) in many distributions, Debian continues to use PolicyKit from Debian 7 wheezy through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.
Polkit and its varieties
I run linux mint, but most of what I learnt about polkits came from the arch wiki. I would expect no difference across distros. Want to see what polkits are installed have a look in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions. One of the first things I do on a fresh install is amend the polkit for gparted so it runs without asking for a password. You can amend or add new actions, I believe you can also do it for the local user, but my knowledge does not extend that far, I just add/amend the contents of /usr/share/polkit-1/actions. More on reddit.com
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October 16, 2022Which Gnome service replaces polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1?
Hello there! Since polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is not available anymore in the repos, I imagine because of changes in Gnome. Is there a new service that must be used instead when using Hyprland or Niri? As I use Fedora Workstation as base for using Hyprland and now trying Niri, and ... More on discussion.fedoraproject.org
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June 19, 2025Alternative to polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
Do you have specifics errors? Which version of Debian are you using?
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September 12, 2014Confused by all the polkit versions and which I should install for sway (arch)
You just need the base polkit package for sway. All the other packages listed under Authentication agents (for example polkit-gnome) are used for giving root access to various graphical programs that ask for it. For example a file manager might need root for mounting certain storage devices. The exact one you choose is personal preference. I am still using polkit-gnome until it breaks or I find another significant reason to switch. More on reddit.com
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October 22, 2022Videos
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polkit: Authenticating Applications - YouTube
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PolKit Is Broken On Window Managers: How To Fix It!! - YouTube
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Using PolKit to rescue sudoers failure - YouTube
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Enterprise Linux Security Episode 17 - Polkit & LUKS CVE's - YouTube
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Polkit Exploit (CVE-2021-3560) in CTFs: Quick Pen Testing Guide!
Hacker News
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Did you know that polkit, the systemd replacement of sudo, uses JavaScript to va... | Hacker News
January 26, 2017 - This was the response: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-De · systemd is a bomb waiting to go off, IMHO
Reddit
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r/linux4noobs on Reddit: Polkit and its varieties
October 16, 2022 -
Hello guys, as usual, after the fresh installation of arch I noticed, that I can't reboot or shutdown without sudo. All of this can be fixed with polkit. But there are so many versions of it: gnome, mate, xfce, just a standard package named "polkit" etc. What's the difference between all of them? Should I tweak them, or all of them are already preconfigured?
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I run linux mint, but most of what I learnt about polkits came from the arch wiki. I would expect no difference across distros. Want to see what polkits are installed have a look in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions. One of the first things I do on a fresh install is amend the polkit for gparted so it runs without asking for a password. You can amend or add new actions, I believe you can also do it for the local user, but my knowledge does not extend that far, I just add/amend the contents of /usr/share/polkit-1/actions.
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AlternativeTo
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hyprpolkitagent Alternatives - Explore Similar Software | AlternativeTo
It is required for GUI applications to be able to request elevated privileges' and is an app. There are four alternatives to hyprpolkitagent for Linux, Flathub, Xfce and KDE Plasma. The best hyprpolkitagent alternative is xfce-polkit, which ...
Gentoo Forums
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Fedora Discussion
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Which Gnome service replaces polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1? - Fedora Discussion
June 19, 2025 - Hello there! Since polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is not available anymore in the repos, I imagine because of changes in Gnome. Is there a new service that must be used instead when using Hyprland or Niri? As I use Fedora Workstation as base for using Hyprland and now trying Niri, and ...
GitHub
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GitHub - travier/betterkit: WIP Polkit replacement · GitHub
WIP Polkit replacement. Contribute to travier/betterkit development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hacker News
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Polkit recently added Duktape as an alternative to mozjs as a scripting engine f... | Hacker News
July 3, 2022 - It's scary to think that Poettering's Linux desktop is built around SpiderMonkey serving as the gatekeeper between users and root · Fortunately Debian's conservatism has kept them on policykit, which avoids this nonsense
Hacker News
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Polkit is entirely redundant (dbus has its own permission system, not that you n... | Hacker News
April 9, 2024 - Dbus is harder to replace, since the complexity addicts at Redhat and KDE decreed it to be The Default Linux IPC, but realistically, most programmers who think they need could do with a solution 10% as complex and 10x as fast. (dbus-broker is a step in the right direction, but not radical enough.)
Reddit
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r/debian on Reddit: Alternative to polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
September 12, 2014 -
Anyone know of an alternative to using polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 with xfce, it seems to be having a problem with dbus and causing me serious headaches
BunsenLabs Linux Forums
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policykit-1-gnome is going from Debian / Development & Suggestions / BunsenLabs Linux Forums
There are alternatives listed by the virtual package polkit-1-auth-agent, notably lxpolkit and lxqt-policykit.
Medium
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A Brief Introduction for sudo alternatives — doas and polkit
February 28, 2021 - As a consequence, there are many alternatives of sudo not only to avoid security vulnerabilities but also configuration in simplicity. On famous substitution is doas. Originated from freeBSD, doas aims to provide a light-weighted package and less complex setting for grant root permission [2]. If you want to try doas, you can install it either with your distro's package manager or here. Seen commonly in RHEL distro, polkit ...
Reddit
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r/swaywm on Reddit: Confused by all the polkit versions and which I should install for sway (arch)
October 22, 2022 -
The arch wiki shows a whole bunch of different polkit versions available: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit
When I install arch through the archinstall script, I can't launch sway unless I first install some version of polkit. Installing just 'polkit' works, so does 'polkit-gnome', but those are the only two I've tried so far. The arch package manager says that polkit-gnome is 'legacy' now, but some OSes that bundle sway (ie. endeavourOS) use it by default.
Is there any real difference between these different versions?
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You just need the base polkit package for sway. All the other packages listed under Authentication agents (for example polkit-gnome) are used for giving root access to various graphical programs that ask for it. For example a file manager might need root for mounting certain storage devices. The exact one you choose is personal preference. I am still using polkit-gnome until it breaks or I find another significant reason to switch.
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Lxse session manager comes with a polkit and doesn't bring any other unnecessary gnome dependencies with it
Reddit
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r/linuxquestions on Reddit: Which polkit?
May 1, 2024 -
I'm looking to ditch desktop environments (for the first time) in the coming weeks, and am researching what packages I'd need on a fresh install without one.
I've stumbled across polkits, but I can't find much information about what the differences are. So I suppose my question really is which polkit do you prefer and why?
Edit: I meant polkit authentication agents instead of polkits.
Arch Linux Forums
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Confused about polkit-gnome and lxpolkit [solved] / Applications & Desktop Environments / Arch Linux Forums
To autostart it everywhere except ... exists since March 28th, 2010 where PCMan himself told us polkit-gnome is not needed anymore: LXPOLKIT – SIMPLE POLICYKIT AUTHENTICATION AGENT:...
LibHunt
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Polkit Alternatives and Reviews
That binary is only 1KLOC https://github.com/wingo/polkit/blob/master/src/programs/pkexec.c - and should be doable, but it is part of the larger polkit package, and I don't know how many dependencies it has on the rest of the C source code.
LibHunt
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Polkit-tools Alternatives and Reviews
Which is the best alternative to polkit-tools? Based on common mentions it is: Ayrx/CVE-2021-4034
LibHunt
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Polkit-dumb-agent Alternatives and Reviews
Which is the best alternative to polkit-dumb-agent? Based on common mentions it is: Lf, Xapp, Sticky-mouse-trap, ThemeChanger, Hotspot, SimpleDBus or Mebeim/CVE-2021-4034