Bug 1369804

Summary:	subscription-manager requires root for --help and version
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Marek Haicman <mhaicman>
Component:	subscription-manager	Assignee:	candlepin-bugs
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	John Sefler <jsefler>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	csnyder, redakkan, skallesh
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Description Marek Haicman 2016-08-24 12:54:35 UTC

Description of problem:
When asking subscription-manager for version, or for simple usage, it still asks user for root password. This is counterintuitive as there shouldn't be a reason for this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 0.9.51.11-1
subscription management rules: 5.15
subscription-manager: 1.17.10-1.el7
python-rhsm: 1.17.6-1.el7


How reproducible:
reliably

Steps to Reproduce:
1. as user, run subscription-manager --help
2. as user, run subscription-manager status
3.

Actual results:
asks for root password

Expected results:
prints requested information without root access

Comment 2 Chris Snyder 2016-09-01 19:59:19 UTC

There is nothing that can be done with subman that does not require root. Allowing --help to be run as a user would provide no substantial benefit.