From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 22:02:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276A816A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:02:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA88B43D3F for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:02:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1959D5D45; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84476-07; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:02:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135895CE7; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:01:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <426822D1.1060009@mac.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:01:53 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Justin R. Pessa" References: <20050414230015.GA6327@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20050421172744.GA20221@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20050421172744.GA20221@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding my CDRW device to k3b X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:02:04 -0000 Justin R. Pessa wrote: > On Apr 20 06:54PM, Michael Collette wrote: >> Before getting into the CDRW stuff, why K3B wouldn't run. I would bet >> that you're using an X Display Manager, like kdm, gdm, or even xdm. >> You can't just su into root and run stuff like that. You need to >> fully log out, then log into whatever wm you use as root. When you do >> that, k3b should come up just fine. > > I log into my system as root then launch kdm then log in as myself. What > do you recommend I do, log into kdm as root? Is there any way to get k3b > running under a normal user account? Try making the dvd+rw-tools port install setuid-root. I don't believe that K3B needs to be root, just the underlying software it calls to actually burn the image.... -- -Chuck