Admin controller: Why is the dev/test environment different from production?

[jhsu802701]

In src/app/controllers/admin/admin_controller.rb, I see that authentication is required to access admin actions in the production environment but not in the development and testing environments. Why don't the development and test environments have the same restriction? This production-only restriction is untested.

[look]

I think this was mostly so you don't have to type in the password to test the admin in development mode.