Description of problem: Unlike up2date yum doesnt prompt for password when run as non-root user Actual results: Run yum as non-root user and you just get a simple message that you should do so. We can do better Expected results: Yum should prompt for password Additional info: Consolehelper is used by up2date, all the system-config-* and generally the Fedora way to do administrative actions. While this might be a generic yum feature since consolehelper might be available on distributions that yum supports it still can be a optional compile time or run time dependency.
If you run other console admin tools, eg, lokkit, you don't get prompted -- not going to change this.