Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread JacobRhoden
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:37 am, Nicole wrote: > An example of how spliting BSD into BSD server and BSD desktop could be a > benefit. Hrmmm. /stand/sysinstall /stand/desktopinstall Jacob RhodenPhone: +61 3 8344 4478 ITS DivisionEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne U

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-21 Thread Nicole
An example of how spliting BSD into BSD server and BSD desktop could be a benefit. Nicole On 21-Oct-03 My Homeland Security Spies reported that Terry Lambert said: > carmoda wrote: >> ~sigh~ >> >> seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a >> user/developer should be a

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-20 Thread Terry Lambert
carmoda wrote: > ~sigh~ > > seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a > user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so > far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after > several times the time required for setup. [as a workstatio

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-20 Thread Andreas Kohn
Hi, On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 16:06, carmoda wrote: > ~sigh~ > > seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a > user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so > far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after > several times the time

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-19 Thread carmoda
~sigh~ seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after several times the time required for setup. [as a workstation] FreeBSD may be 'free

Re: Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-19 Thread peter lageotakes
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been having a trouble get

Problems with ordinary user permissions

2003-10-19 Thread Anthony Carmody
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 lo