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| pkcheckpkcheck — Check whether a process is authorized | 
pkcheck  [--version] [--help]
pkcheck  [--list-temp]
pkcheck  [--revoke-temp]
pkcheck   
        --action-id
        action
        { 
          --process
           { 
              pid
              |   
              pid,pid-start-time
             }
          |   
          --system-bus-name
          busname
         } [ 
          --allow-user-interaction
         ] [ 
          --enable-internal-agent
         ] [ 
          --detail
          key
          value
         ...]
      pkcheck is used to check whether a process, specified by
      either --process or --system-bus-name,
      is authorized for action. The --detail
      option can be used zero or more times to pass details about action.
      If --allow-user-interaction is passed, pkcheck blocks
      while waiting for authentication.
    
The invocation pkcheck --list-temp will list all temporary authorizations for the current session and pkcheck --revoke-temp will revoke all temporary authorizations for the current session.
This command is a simple wrapper around the PolicyKit D-Bus interface; see the D-Bus interface documentation for details.
If the specified process is authorized, pkcheck exits with a return value of 0. If the authorization result contains any details, these are printed on standard output as key/value pairs using environment style reporting, e.g. first the key followed by a an equal sign, then the value followed by a newline.
KEY1=VALUE1 KEY2=VALUE2 KEY3=VALUE3 ...
Octects that are not in [a-zA-Z0-9_] are escaped using octal codes prefixed with \. For example, the UTF-8 string føl,你好 will be printed as f\303\270l\54\344\275\240\345\245\275.
If the specificied process is not authorized, pkcheck exits with a return value of 1 and a diagnostic message is printed on standard error. Details are printed on standard output.
      If the specificied process is not
      authorized because no suitable authentication agent is available or if the
      --allow-user-interaction wasn't passed, pkcheck
      exits with a return value of 2 and a diagnostic message is printed on standard error.
      Details are printed on standard output.
    
If the specificied process is not authorized because the authentication dialog / request was dismissed by the user, pkcheck exits with a return value of 3 and a diagnostic message is printed on standard error. Details are printed on standard output.
If an error occured while checking for authorization, pkcheck exits with a return value of 127 with a diagnostic message printed on standard error.
If one or more of the options passed are malformed, pkcheck exits with a return value of 126. If stdin is a tty, then this manual page is also shown.
      Since process identifiers can be recycled, the caller should always use
      pid,pid-start-time to specify the process
      to check for authorization when using the --process option.
      The value of pid-start-time
      can be determined by consulting e.g. the
      proc(5)
      file system depending on the operating system. If only pid
      is passed to the --process option, then pkcheck
      will look up the start time itself but note that this may be racy.
    
      pkcheck, like any other PolicyKit
      application, will use the authentication agent registered for
      the process in question. However, if no authentication agent is
      available, then pkcheck can register its own
      textual authentication agent if the option
      --enable-internal-agent is passed.
    
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