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 <chapter id="introduction">
 <title>Overview</title>
 
 <para>&policykit-kde; is a implementation of PolicyKit tool to the look and feel
 of KDE.</para>
 
 <para>PolicyKit allows easy and secure password management, it can be used by
 applications to ask their users for a password. Each application defines a set
 of actions that can be executed by their program.
 The application will call PolicyKit to see if the user can perform a given
 action, if not, the application can issue the auth dialog where the user
 can enter his/her password, root password, the password of a given group
 of users or even swipe the finger.</para>
 
 <para>&policykit-kde; consists of two applications:
 The Authorization agent that receives requests for authentication, and shows
 a dialog asking for a password.
 The Authorization manager that is used to manage the authorizations, it is
 mainly used by system administrators that may want to change the default behavior
 of a program policies.</para>
 
 <para>For Qt/KDE developers there is Qt library to allow easy integration with
 you application and PolicyKit.</para>
 
 <para>For more information of how PolicyKit works, it's design and API visit
 <ulink url="http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/">PolicyKit Library Reference Manual</ulink></para>
 
 </chapter>