BSD Ports

devel/kf6/kauth 6.31.0 OpenBSD

execute actions as privileged user

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]>
Categories
devel, devel/kf6

Description

KAuth provides a convenient, system-integrated way to offload actions that need to be performed as a privileged user (root, for example) to small (hopefully secure) helper utilities.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 6.31.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
OpenBSDdevel/kf6/kauth6.31.0 newestno data-Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]>-
FreeBSDdevel/kf6-kauth by name6.31.0 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-09
NetBSDsecurity/kf6-kauth by name6.29.0none known--2026-09-29
DragonFlydevel/kf6-kauth by name6.14.0none known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDdevel/kf6-kauth by name6.30.0no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDdevel/kf6-kauth by name6.30.0no data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg_add kf6-kauth

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/devel/kf6/kauth && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Build dependencies 6
Run dependencies 4