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# Setting up Policy Kit
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These instructions were performed on arch linux. The process should be roughly the same on other distributions, but refer to your local wiki anyway.
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Policy Kit in Linux can be compared to UAC in Windows.
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If you want to perform an admin (root) action in a graphic environment, Policy Kit ensures you get a dialog prompting you for your password.
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## Installation
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First, you have to install policy kit itself. Policy kit is also known as polkit:
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`sudo pacman -S polkit`
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If you are in a text-only environment, you don't need to do anything else.
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But I assume you are in a graphical environment, in which case you need an *authentication agent*.
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Note that if you used an installation script or installed a big DE group package, you might already have an authentication agent installed.
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Check your package list before continuing. Here are DEs that typically have an agent pre-installed: Cinnamon, Deepin, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, Xfce.
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You have a couple of different ones to choose from, you can find a list in the [arch linux article](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit).
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In this guide, we will use *lxpolkit*. Let's install it.
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`sudo pacman -S lxsession-gtk3`
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## Autostart
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You need to set your agent to autostart on session start. This is done differently in every DE, WM or other environment.
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For example, in KDE plasma you can add autostart commands via the system settings utility.
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If you use something like AwesomeWM, you can just spawn a process.
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Or you can simply add it to your .xsession or .xprofile.
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The only thing you need to add to autostart is the command for your agent. In the case of lxpolkit you would just add the command `lxpolkit` to autostart.
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