Root owns my CD-RW's after re-inst. - can't burn

[Sean Miller]

Ari Torhamo wrote:

>Apparenly the ownership being changed to root is the reason for that
>burning doesn't start (is it?), but what might be the way to get around
>this obstacle? I can't change the file ownerships and I can't empty the
>CD-RW. I tried to start Nautilus from the command line by doing "sudo
>nautilus" and then tried again burning to the CD-RW, but this didn't
>seem to change anything. BTW, it's strange that I have re-installed
>Ubuntu two times before this and I don't remember facing this situation
>before - I'm pretty sure I would remember. Has something changed in
>Ubuntu in this area?
>  
>
Why are you using "sudo" to start it?  Are you also using sudo to burn 
your CDs? If so, you will be running it as root, which may explain the 
permissions... don't use sudo unless you need to do something as root.

Sean