(In reply to Matthias Gerstner from comment #3) > > Still I would like to ask you to check with upstream what they intend to > achieve with such logic. There is a certain danger that future coders > interpret this flag wrongly and use it also in privileged D-Bus functions. > > I'm not sure whether getting BIOS settings is not also already to some level > privileged. But fwupd is rather lax in other areas already when it comes to > obtaining system information without authentication. > > Please get in contact with upstream about this before I whitelist the new > actions. I could do that, but frankly since I do not know nor understand the security implications, it would mean that I'd just have to copypaste the reply from here as a question in a issue. It would probably be a lot more fruitful if you as a person who understands these matters did that yourself.