From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Oct 19 08:30:36 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 7DEB216A4B3
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:30:36 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail011.syd.optusnet.com.au
	[211.29.132.65])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C057543F75
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:30:34 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from anthony@carmoda.com)
Received: from carmoda.com (c211-28-220-147.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au
	[211.28.220.147])h9JFUXF26048
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:30:33 +1000
Message-ID: <3F933BE4.2060603@carmoda.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:35:32 +0000
From: Anthony Carmody <anthony@carmoda.com>
Organization: Anthony Carmody Consulting Pty Ltd
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Problems with ordinary user permissions
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
Reply-To: freebsd.org@carmoda.com
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:30:36 -0000

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...