OVERVIEW ======== polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. RELEASES ======== Releases of polkit are available in compressed tarballs from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/ To verify the authenticity of the compressed tarball, use this command $ gpg --verify polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz.sign polkit-$(VERSION).tar.gz gpg: Signature made Sat 10 Mar 2012 03:00:30 PM EST using RSA key ID 3418A891 gpg: Good signature from "David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com>" gpg: aka "[jpeg image of size 5237]" BUGS and DEVELOPMENT ==================== Please report non-security bugs via the freedesktop.org bugzilla at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PolicyKit SECURITY ISSUES =============== polkit uses the same mechanism for reporting security issues as dbus, the most recent copy of instructions can be found in the DBus git repository: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/HACKING A copy of the instructions as of 2015-06-04: If you find a security vulnerability that is not known to the public, please report it privately to dbus-security@lists.freedesktop.org or by reporting a freedesktop.org bug that is marked as restricted to the "D-BUS security group".