Never require login in the help command

osc/cmdln.py

@@ -326,6 +326,8 @@ class RawCmdln(cmd.Cmd):
         if self.optparser: # i.e. optparser=None means don't process for opts
             try:
                 self.options, args = self.optparser.parse_args(argv[1:])
+                # store args so we can use them in self.postoptparse()
+                self.args = args
             except CmdlnUserError as ex:
                 msg = "%s: %s\nTry '%s help' for info.\n"\
                       % (self.name, ex, self.name)

osc/commandline.py

@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ class Osc(cmdln.Cmdln):
 
     def postoptparse(self):
         """merge commandline options into the config"""
+
+        if self._get_canonical_cmd_name(self.args[0]) == "help":
+            # avoid loading config that may trigger prompt for username, password etc.
+            return
+
         try:
             conf.get_config(override_conffile = self.options.conffile,
                             override_apiurl = self.options.apiurl,