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## 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)