Comment 4 for bug 358086

I've reviewed this as well ( disclaimer: I am a friend of Kerin ) and I have to agree: this looks like a bad design decision. PolicyKit needs to have some way of synchronizing with system administrator privileges or there are just too many cooks in the kitchen. This is a classic example of lack of unity in design that Linux tends to suffer from. If PolicyKit has the ability to grant root access to users then it needs to behave like every other program that does so (like sudo). It should work through PAM just like everything else.