# phpman > info > pkaction

[PKACTION(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PKACTION/1/markdown)                        pkaction                        [PKACTION(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PKACTION/1/markdown)

NAME
       pkaction - Get details about a registered action

SYNOPSIS
       pkaction [--version] [--help]

       pkaction [--verbose]

       pkaction --action-id action [--verbose]

DESCRIPTION
       pkaction is used to obtain information about registered PolicyKit
       actions. If called with --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.

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

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

BUGS
       Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the polkit-devel
       mailing list, see the link
       <http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel> on how to
       subscribe.

SEE ALSO
       [polkit(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/polkit/8/markdown), [pkcheck(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pkcheck/1/markdown), [pkexec(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pkexec/1/markdown), [pkttyagent(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pkttyagent/1/markdown)

polkit                             May 2009                        [PKACTION(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PKACTION/1/markdown)