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<chapter id="introduction"> |
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<title>Overview</title> |
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<para>&policykit-kde; is a implementation of PolicyKit tool to the look and feel |
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of KDE.</para> |
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<para>PolicyKit allows easy and secure password management, it can be used by |
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applications to ask their users for a password. Each application defines a set |
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of actions that can be executed by their program. |
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The application will call PolicyKit to see if the user can perform a given |
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action, if not, the application can issue the auth dialog where the user |
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can enter his/her password, root password, the password of a given group |
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of users or even swipe the finger.</para> |
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<para>&policykit-kde; consists of two applications: |
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The Authorization agent that receives requests for authentication, and shows |
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a dialog asking for a password. |
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The Authorization manager that is used to manage the authorizations, it is |
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mainly used by system administrators that may want to change the default behavior |
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of a program policies.</para> |
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<para>For Qt/KDE developers there is Qt library to allow easy integration with |
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you application and PolicyKit.</para> |
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<para>For more information of how PolicyKit works, it's design and API visit |
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<ulink url="http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/">PolicyKit Library Reference Manual</ulink></para> |
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</chapter>
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