PolicyKit-mate provides an Authentication Agent for PolicyKit that integrates well with the MATE desktop environment See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit for lots of documentation, mailing lists, etc. about PolicyKit. See also the file HACKING for notes of interest to developers working on PolicyKit-mate. Report bugs against PolicyKit-mate at the MATE bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ against the policykit-mate product.