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Polkit is disabled by default. If you wish to enable it, you can set <code>security.polkit.enable</code> to true.
Polkit is disabled by default. If you wish to enable it, you can set <code>security.polkit.enable</code> to true.
== Reboot/poweroff for unprivileged users ==
With the following rule, we can grant the permissions <code>reboot</code> and <code>poweroff</code> a machine to users in the <code>
users</code> group.
This is useful on a multi-user machine. It may also be of particular importance when using XRDP or other similar [[Remote Desktop]] solutions.
{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
  security.polkit.extraConfig = ''
    polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
      if (
        subject.isInGroup("users")
          && (
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.reboot" ||
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.reboot-multiple-sessions" ||
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off" ||
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.power-off-multiple-sessions"
          )
        )
      {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
      }
    })
  '';
</nowiki>}}


== Authentication agents ==
== Authentication agents ==
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systemd = {
systemd = {
   user.services.polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 = {
   user.services.polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 = {
     Unit = {
     description = "polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1";
      Description = "polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1";
    wantedBy = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
      Wants = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
    wants = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
      WantedBy = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
    after = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
      After = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
     serviceConfig = {
     };
        Type = "simple";
    Service = {
      Type = "simple";
         ExecStart = "${pkgs.polkit_gnome}/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1";
         ExecStart = "${pkgs.polkit_gnome}/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1";
         Restart = "on-failure";
         Restart = "on-failure";
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};
};
</syntaxhighlight>
</syntaxhighlight>
Another option is <code>lxqt.lxqt-policykit</code>, which can be launched on login through the command <code>lxqt-policykit-agent</code> on e.g. Hyprland.
== Start the authentication agent in dwm ==
If you use dwm patched with [https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/autostart/dwm-autostart-20210120-cb3f58a.diff dwm-autostart-20210120-cb3f58a.diff], you can add a command into <code>~/.dwm/autostart.sh</code> to start a polkit agent. Here take <code>mate.mate-polkit</code> for example:
<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
#!/bin/sh
# General stuff
...
/nix/store/$(ls -la /nix/store | grep 'mate-polkit' | grep '4096' | awk '{print $9}' | sed -n '$p')/libexec/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1 &
...
</syntaxhighlight>
Use this method, you won't need to change the codes even <code>mate.mate-polkit</code> gets an update.
<syntaxhighlight lang=bash>
#!/bin/sh
...
/nix/store/$(ls -la /nix/store | grep polkit-kde-agent | grep '^d' | awk '{print $9}')/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 &
...
</syntaxhighlight>
The same but for <code>polkit-kde-agent</code>