root password required to reboot beta4

I hope this will be only in SLES10 and won't be default for SUSE Linux 10.1. It would be annoying and pointless for a home use desktop product. I've seen bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=151462 it points to bug 144356 that I can't access. What does bug 144356 say?