polkitd - PolicyKit daemon
polkitd
polkitd provides the org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 D-Bus service on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application calls into the service.
Written by David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> with a lot of help from many others.
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polkit(8)