Polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. It was previously named PolicyKit.

This package configures the polkitd D-Bus service to read default authorization policies from .desktop-style files in subdirectories of /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority. It is compatible with the version of polkitd used in Debian 11 and older releases.