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

[Andrew]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34326>

                 Summary: Ship a PolicyKit action to reboot into different OS
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: and471
            Submitted on: Sun 18 Sep 2011 09:47:47 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: Bazaar - trunk
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

grub-reboot is a great tool that grub ships, which makes it easy to reboot
into a different OS, however one issue with it is that it requires root
permissions to run.

PolicyKit overcomes this issue by allowing an unprivileged user run
grub-reboot using pkexec, however to make the user experience more friendly, a
.policy file should be shipped with grub, which provides a message and
description of what the action does.

Attached is a PolicyKit action file already made for grub, all that needs to
be done is for it to be shipped with grub, and installed into
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/



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File Attachments:


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Date: Sun 18 Sep 2011 09:47:47 AM GMT  Name: grub.grubreboot.policy  Size:
721B   By: and471

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=23989>

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