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In order to be able to answer this question, I was looking for a way to manage PolicyKit in KDE. Using Google I quickly ran into the KDE's official Authorization manager (mentioned here and here in the official upstream KDE docs):

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However, I cannot locate this on my fully fledged Kubuntu 12.04.1 installation. It's not in the System Settings while I have installed the packages policykit-desktop-privileges and polkit-kde-1.

It seems it is supposed to be included in the very base of KDE since 4.3 according to these docs:

PolicyKit is closely integrated with KDE starting from version 4.3. In kdebase-workspace we have an authorization manager and an authentication agent.

In Ubuntu, the package kdebase-workspace is a transitional package to kde-workspace, which is in turn a metapackage for some basic KDE workspace applications - not mentioning anything about PolicyKit or authorization, only the System Settings application.

Now, where is this part of the "System Settings" in Ubuntu nowadays?

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    It seems to be missing in kubuntu, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/polkit-kde-1/+bug/575428 . And it seems te be forgotten as well :( – McNisse Feb 01 '13 at 11:16
  • @McNisse Thanks for the link to the bug report! I must have been missing this one in Googling. – gertvdijk Feb 01 '13 at 11:22
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    Just for the completeness - it seems to be moved out of KDE workspace upstream, into a new project [here](https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/base/polkit-kde-kcmodules-1) and missing in Kubuntu since 10.04. I've updated the bug report and it looks like it's going to take some time in order to get this new package in Debian/Ubuntu. – gertvdijk Feb 01 '13 at 12:14
  • I would like to reopen this question and hope for a answer. Thanks. – DrBeco Nov 03 '15 at 18:47
  • @DrBeco It's not valid question here I'm afraid. Note that I close the question myself for the reason it's a bug and such questions are therefore not valid here as per the [faq]. – gertvdijk Nov 04 '15 at 12:01
  • Get it to run under kde5 and looking for integrate it to kde5... i am on a redhat based distro tho... first install "kdebase4-runtime" and "polkit-kde-kcmodules-1" rpm/deb to check what's runnable run "kcmshell4 --list" and to run the app do "kcmshell4 kcm_polkitactions" and "kcmshell4 kcm_polkitconfig" this is a very useful app i don't know what happened on kde5 – intika Apr 07 '18 at 03:01
  • Also a good lecture https://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/polkit-and-kde-lets-make-the-point-of-the-situation/ – intika Apr 07 '18 at 15:21

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