pkaction(1)

pkaction1

Get details about a registered action

Usage

pkaction [--version] [--help]

pkaction [--verbose]

pkaction --action-id action [--verbose]

Overview

pkaction is used to obtain information about registered polkit actions. If called without --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.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9–10
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. 13
  8. Arch

Author

Written by David Zeuthen <[email protected]> with a lot of help from many others.

Bugs

Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel mailing list, see https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit#bugs-and-development.

From polkit 128-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.