[newbie] Permissions help

[Scott Olfert]

Hey all,

Why would i be unable to launch the adsl-start script as a user?  It's 
permissions are as follows:

-rwxr-xr-x   1  root  root

If i'm reading this correctly, the script then should be readable and 
executable by my user account?

When i try to run it from bash i get "adsl-start: you must be root to run 
this script".  Why would i not be able to run this script as user?

Thanks for your input, i'm a relative newbie trying to figure out these 
permissions.

Scott