[bug #34326] Ship a PolicyKit action to reboot into different OS

[Vladimir Serbinenko]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #34326 (project grub):

"PolicyKit simply provides organisation and a means by which unprivileged
users can perform privileged actions. "
"In short, it is a cool sudo :) "
This is exactly the problem. Allowing unprivilegied used to do something
additional without admin consent is a bad thing. You always have to make a
trade-off between security and convenience. While some distros are pretty
convenient some other take a die-hard pro-security side and in upstream we
shouldn't do anything to change it to more convenience, at least by default.
Also if we ship something like this we imply that using them is secure but in
fact the background are scripts and programs which may have undiscovered
security vulnerabilities.

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