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From: peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions
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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...
> 
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