PKACTION(1) pkaction PKACTION(1)

.SH "NAME" pkaction - Get details about a registered action

.SH "SYNOPSIS"

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**pkaction**  
\[**--version**]  
\[**--help**]

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**pkaction**  
[  
| **--verbose**  
]

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**pkaction**  
**--action-id** *action*  
[  
| **--verbose**  
]

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

.PP **pkaction** is used to obtain information about registered polkit actions. If called without **--action-id** then all actions are displayed. Otherwise the action *action*. If called without the **--verbose** option only the name of the action is shown. Otherwise details about the actions are shown.

.SH "RETURN VALUE"

.PP On success **pkaction** returns 0. Otherwise a non-zero value is returned and a diagnostic message is printed on standard error.

.SH "AUTHOR"

.PP Written by David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> with a lot of help from many others.

.SH "BUGS"

.PP Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel mailing list, see **https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit#bugs-and-development**.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.PP [**polkit**(8)](/man/os/polkit/polkit.8), [**polkitd**(8)](/man/os/polkit/polkitd.8), [**pkcheck**(1)](/man/os/polkit/pkcheck.1), [**pkexec**(1)](/man/os/polkit/pkexec.1), [**pkttyagent**(1)](/man/os/polkit/pkttyagent.1)

May 2009 polkit

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Document: pkaction(1) from polkit 127-r5 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit.git