1. NAME

pkaction - Get details about a registered action

2. SYNOPSIS

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

3. 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.

4. RETURN VALUE

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

5. AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen with a lot of help from many others.

6. 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-devel\m[] on how to subscribe.

7. SEE ALSO

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