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PKACTION

Section: pkaction (1)
Updated: May 2009
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NAME

pkaction - Get details about a registered action  

SYNOPSIS

pkaction [--version] [--help]
pkaction [--verbose]
pkaction --action-id action [--verbose]
 

DESCRIPTION

pkaction

is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit actions. If called with --action-id then all actions are displayed. Otherwise the action action. If called without the --verbose option only the name of the action is shown. Otherwise details about the actions are shown.  

RETURN VALUE

On success pkaction returns 0. Otherwise a non-zero value is returned and a diagnostic message is printed on standard error.  

AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen davidz@redhat.com with a lot of help from many others.  

BUGS

Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel mailing list, see the link m[blue]http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-develm[] on how to subscribe.  

SEE ALSO

polkit(8), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1)

 

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