When creating/modifying a user in linuxconf and specifying the privilege to use linuxconf, the user will get a Permision Denied error when typing linuxconf in the shell.
Verified in test lab. Created new user and gave them permission to use linuxconf. When logged in as user, get permission denied message when executing linuxconf command.
This is by design. To turn on this feature, make linuxconf setuid root and executable by users that you want to be able to run it. We do not ship linuxconf setuid root because we do not trust it setuid root from a security standpoint. This is an optional feature and making linuxconf setuid root is the only way to enable it, by design.