Comment # 8 on bug 818505 from Andreas Stieger

(In reply to Michal Papis from comment #5)
> `The vendor's "check balance" application` - I have seen few of those
> applications on MSWindows and none of them required password to check
> balance

USSD can do more than check balance. We would like auth_admin to remain.

> requiring one in Linux will push off another group of users, please
> do not enforce security where it is not needed.

Windows has a different security model.

We would consider this again if ModemManager provided service that performs
account balance queries only, without allowing other facilities.