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PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and
handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak
to privileged processes: It is a framework for centralizing the
decision making process with respect to granting access to
privileged operations for unprivileged applications. PolicyKit
is specifically targeting applications in rich desktop
environments on multi-user UNIX-like operating systems. It does
not imply or rely on any exotic kernel features.
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