xcdroast is apparently an application which redhat has included
in those apps contolled by consolehelper.

For those of you that want to run xcdroast you can
disable the root requirement by editing the files

   /etc/security/console.apps/xcdroast

 and

  /etc/pam.d/xcdroast



My files look something like this and it works for me on SL302

/etc/security/console.apps/xcdroast

 PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/xcdroast

/etc/pam.d/xcdroast

 auth       sufficient   pam_rootok.so
 auth       required     pam_console.so
 account    required     pam_permit.so
 #auth       sufficient   pam_rootok.so
 #auth       sufficient   pam_timestamp.so
 #auth       required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth
 #session    optional     pam_xauth.so
 #session    optional     pam_timestamp.so
 #account    required     pam_permit.so
 #auth       required    pam_stack.so service=system-auth



Regards
Rochelle Lauer
Yale University Physics