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

[kahping]

Sean Miller Wrote: 
> 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
> 
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i think that's what he's trying to get at: he can't burn a CD as a
default user, so he tried doing it as sudo but it's the same problem.

kahping


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