install: Add `--copy-container-credentials`
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Description
We document that registry credentials are honored from `/etc/ostree/auth.json`, but it's easy to miss (and needs to highlighted much better) (there's also the general issue with embedding the pull secret in the image itself, cc https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/22 )
Now when using `bootc install to-filesystem` with a private registry, we could add `bootc install --copy-container-credentials` where we go and slurp out `~/.config/containers/auth.json` and inject it into the final system as `/etc/ostree/auth.json`.
This way we get a flow where we
- `podman login` on the original host
- `bootc install to-filesystem --copy-container-credentials`
And the *original* podman credentials (injected into `~/.config/containers/auth.json`) could have come from e.g. cloud-init (which is arguably more secure than embedding them into the image itself).
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