Allowd

The goal of allowd is to provide memory-safe policy rules using D-Bus.

Allowd is part of our Privilege Boundary initiative.

About

We will prototype an alternative approach to the current Polkit daemon, utilizing the existing external D-Bus interfaces, but improving the internal design. We also aim to demonstrate to the Freedesktop community, especially the systemd team, that Rust is well-suited for these core desktop applications, producing small and efficient binaries with limited dependencies.

Roadmap

  • 2026 Q2: Start of development

The allowd project is supported by NLnet Foundation

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