Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:22:58 -0700 (PDT) From: peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com> To: freebsd.org@carmoda.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: anthony@carmoda.com Subject: Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions Message-ID: <20031019172258.57908.qmail@web14602.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3F933BE4.2060603@carmoda.com>
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Please check out the FreeBSD FAQ: 9.22. How do I let ordinary users mount floppies, CDROMs and other removable media? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT Pete --- Anthony Carmody <anthony@carmoda.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been having a trouble getting various things > to work on my new > 5.1 workstation with gnome 2.x. > > tonight i was attemtping to get 'gtoaster' [cd > buring s/w] working as i > couldnt see any drives, and when i tried adding them > i encountered a few > errors muttering about permissions. so i logged on a > root and low and > behold not only did i see all the CD drives, but i > could also browse my > Network, something i have not been able to do. > > what should do? > > migrate to using 'root' for my everyday login, or > somehow 'up' my > ordinary account..? > > anyone have any suggestions on either idea and > perhaps if i should > migrate how i could go about this...? > > please 'CC' me directly on replys... > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
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