---
name: "PolicyKit"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "policykit"
version: "0.9-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/PolicyKit"
---

# PolicyKit(8)

Centralized policy management

## NAME

PolicyKit - Centralized policy management

## DESCRIPTION

For more information about the big picture refer to the PolicyKit specification which can be normally be found under */usr/share/doc*.

*TODO:* This manual page should contain a simple introduction to PolicyKit for a system administrator audience. Remains to be written.

## AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen \<david@fubar.dk\> with a lot of help from many others.

## BUGS

Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the hal mailing list, see *http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal*. to subscribe.

## SEE ALSO

[**PolicyKit.conf**(5)](/PolicyKit.conf/5.md), [**polkit-action**(1)](/polkit-action/1.md), [**polkit-auth**(1)](/polkit-auth/1.md)