Introduction to Polkit

Introduction to Polkit: Navigating Authorization Frameworks in Linux

Polkit is an authorization framework installed on every modern Linux distribution: it provides API which allow privileged applications to expose services to unprivileged subjects. Communications with Polkit happens over D-Bus, which is an IPC (Interprocess Communication) system; to understand how the former works, we have to get a grasp of how the latter is implemented, first.

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How to install and configure Starship on Linux

One of the things that make Linux-based operating systems great is the high degree of customization they offer us. We can customize and adapt (almost) everything to our needs, from the options the kernel is compiled with, to the  desktop environment. On any Linux distribution, the terminal emulator is an essential tool for power users and system administrators. Starship is a free and open source plugin written in rust we can use to customize our favorite shell prompt by using a variety of modules.

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