From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030702 Galeon/1.3.5 Description of problem: You need your root password to display the --help or usage information for a root-level command; you should be able to get that information without the root password. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.63-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Given a graphical root-level application, open a terminal and run it as a normal user. For example: /usr/sbin/gdmconfig --help Instead of getting the expected --help output, you are prompted for your password. Only after entering the root password do you get the output. Additional info: Definite low or wishlist bug. Workaround: just become root or enter root password.
I think it's a possible security risk. In my opinion an unauthorized person shouldn't be able to read even a help for an application that needs authentication via usermode utilities.