From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:00:34 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:   
      
   > policykit did that, but I think that systemd does it currently in my   
   > distro, openSUSE. I'm not 100% certain.   
      
   On my Debian Unstable system:   
      
       root@theon:~ # systemctl status '*pol*'   
       ● polkit-agent-helper.socket - Authorization Manager Agent Helper   
            Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit-agent-helper.socket;   
   enabled; preset: enabled)   
            Active: active (listening) since Tue 2026-01-27 14:27:17 NZDT; 3   
   weeks 0 days ago   
        Invocation: 7d33176310b9436f87a5f8b590fa1d2f   
              Docs: man:polkit(8)   
            Listen: /run/polkit/agent-helper.socket (Stream)   
          Accepted: 0; Connected: 0;   
      
       Jan 27 14:27:17 theon systemd[1]: Listening on polkit-agent-helper.socket   
   - Authorization Manager Agent Helper.   
      
       ● polkit.service - Authorization Manager   
            Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)   
            Active: active (running) since Tue 2026-01-27 14:27:17 NZDT; 3 weeks   
   0 days ago   
        Invocation: a745987d0eed4984851d69b4b6f6cbc7   
              Docs: man:polkit(8)   
          Main PID: 1138 (polkitd)   
            Status: "Processing requests..."   
             Tasks: 4 (limit: 37349)   
            Memory: 4.3M (max: 32M, swap max: 32M, available: 27.6M, peak: 11.5M,   
   swap: 3.7M, swap peak: 4.6M)   
               CPU: 26.253s   
            CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service   
                    └─1138 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug   
   --log-level=notice   
      
       Jan 27 14:27:17 theon systemd[1]: Starting polkit.service - Authorization   
   Manager...   
       Jan 27 14:27:17 theon polkitd[1138]: Started polkitd version 127   
       Jan 27 14:27:17 theon systemd[1]: Started polkit.service - Authorization   
   Manager.   
      
   The two are not mutually exclusive ...   
      
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