glfs/shareddeps/security/polkit.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY polkit-download-http "https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/archive/&polkit-version;/polkit-&polkit-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY polkit-download-ftp  " ">
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<sect1 id="polkit" xreflabel="Polkit-&polkit-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="polkit.html"?>


  <title>Polkit-&polkit-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="polkit">
    <primary sortas="a-Polkit">Polkit</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Polkit</title>

    <para>
      <application>Polkit</application> is a toolkit for defining and handling
      authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to
      communicate with privileged processes.
    </para>

    

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&polkit-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

<!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/polkit-&polkit-version;-security_fixes-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/polkit-&polkit-version;-js91-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Polkit Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="duktape"/> and
      <xref linkend="glib2"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="linux-pam"/> and <xref linkend="elogind"/>
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        Since <command>elogind</command>
        uses PAM to register user sessions, it is a good idea to build
        <application>Polkit</application> with PAM support so
        <command>elogind</command>
        can track <application>Polkit</application> sessions.
      </para>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="polkit-agent" xreflabel="Polkit Authentication Agent">
      Optional Runtime Dependencies
    </bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      One polkit authentication agent for using polkit in the graphical
      environment; this will greatly depend on what desktop you are running...
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Polkit</title>

    <para>
      There should be a dedicated user and group to take control
      of the <command>polkitd</command> daemon after it is
      started. Issue the following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -fg 27 polkitd &amp;&amp;
useradd -c "PolicyKit Daemon Owner" -d /etc/polkit-1 -u 27 \
        -g polkitd -s /bin/false polkitd</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      First fix a build problem for sysV based systems:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/systemd_sysusers_dir/s/^/#/' meson.build</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>Polkit</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup ..                    \
      --prefix=/usr               \
      --buildtype=release         \
      -D man=false                \
      -D session_tracking=elogind \
      -D tests=false</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Build the package:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>-D os_type=lfs</option>: Use this switch if you did not create
      the <filename>/etc/lfs-release</filename> file or distribution auto
      detection will fail and you will be unable to use
      <application>Polkit</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-D authfw=shadow</option>: This switch enables the
      package to use the <application>Shadow</application> rather than the
      <application>Linux PAM</application> Authentication framework. Use it
      if you have not installed <application>Linux PAM</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-D introspection=false</option>: This option disables GObject
      Introspection support if you are sure you don't need it.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-D man=false</option>: This option disables generating and
      installing manual pages.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          pkaction, pkcheck, <!--pk-example-frobnicate,--> pkexec,
          pkttyagent, and polkitd
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libpolkit-agent-1.so and
          libpolkit-gobject-1.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/polkit-1,
          /usr/include/polkit-1,
          /usr/lib/polkit-1,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1, and
          /usr/share/polkit-1
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="pkaction">
        <term><command>pkaction</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkaction">
            <primary sortas="b-pkaction">pkaction</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pkcheck">
        <term><command>pkcheck</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to check whether a process is authorized for action
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkcheck">
            <primary sortas="b-pkcheck">pkcheck</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

<!--
      <varlistentry id="pk-example-frobnicate">
        <term><command>pk-example-frobnicate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an example program to test the <command>pkexec</command>
            command
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pk-example-frobnicate">
            <primary sortas="b-pk-example-frobnicate">pk-example-frobnicate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
-->

      <varlistentry id="pkexec">
        <term><command>pkexec</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkexec">
            <primary sortas="b-pkexec">pkexec</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pkttyagent">
        <term><command>pkttyagent</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to start a textual authentication agent for the subject
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit pkttyagent">
            <primary sortas="b-pkttyagent">pkttyagent</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="polkitd">
        <term><command>polkitd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 <application>D-Bus</application>
            service on the system message bus
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit polkitd">
            <primary sortas="b-polkitd">polkitd</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpolkit-agent-1">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpolkit-agent-1.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>Polkit</application> authentication
            agent API functions
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-agent-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-agent-1">libpolkit-agent-1.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpolkit-gobject-1">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpolkit-gobject-1.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the <application>Polkit</application> authorization API functions
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="polkit libpolkit-gobject-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libpolkit-gobject-1">libpolkit-gobject-1.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>