PolicyKit: Branch 'wip/js-rule-files'

David Zeuthen david at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue May 22 11:00:53 PDT 2012


 docs/man/polkit.xml |   14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit 875fc6d6c243f51bb94daa7f562be74da59cf5a8
Author: David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue May 22 14:00:36 2012 -0400

    Clarify docs a bit
    
    Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>

diff --git a/docs/man/polkit.xml b/docs/man/polkit.xml
index 0d560dc..e36f05a 100644
--- a/docs/man/polkit.xml
+++ b/docs/man/polkit.xml
@@ -25,14 +25,13 @@
     <para>
       polkit provides an authorization API intended to be used by
       privileged programs (<quote>MECHANISMS</quote>) offering service
-      to unprivileged programs (<quote>SUBJECTS</quote>) through some
-      form of IPC mechanism such as D-Bus or Unix pipes. In this
+      to unprivileged programs (<quote>SUBJECTS</quote>) often through
+      some form of inter-process communication mechanism. In this
       scenario, the mechanism typically treats the subject as
       untrusted. For every request from a subject, the mechanism needs
       to determine if the request is authorized or if it should refuse
       to service the subject. Using the polkit APIs, a mechanism can
-      offload this decision to a trusted party: The polkit
-      Authority.
+      offload this decision to a trusted party: The polkit Authority.
     </para>
 
     <para>
@@ -52,11 +51,10 @@
       <emphasis>Authority</emphasis> (implemented as a service on the
       system message bus) and an <emphasis>Authentication
       Agent</emphasis> per user session (provided and started by the
-      user's graphical environment, for example <ulink
-      url="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</ulink>). <emphasis>Actions</emphasis>
-      are defined by applications and vendors, sites and system
+      user's graphical environment). <emphasis>Actions</emphasis> are
+      defined by applications. Vendors, sites and system
       administrators can control authorization policy through
-      <emphasis>Authorization Rules</emphasis>
+      <emphasis>Authorization Rules</emphasis>.
     </para>
     <mediaobject id="polkit-architecture">
       <imageobject>


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