<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2838" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=754112601-08042006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has found a simple way to use access tools such as orca with administration options such as networking or synaptic.  The only way I currently know to do this without too much hassle is to have the GUI not start at boot and to do "sudo xinit" to start it with admin rights for the current session which will allow things to speak as expected.  I'm wondering, is there any way to tell these tools to allow access from the user account?  I'm assuming that the answer is no as this would violate the whole concept of root but just thought I'd ask.  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=754112601-08042006><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=754112601-08042006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike  </FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>