Erik Jakobsen wrote:

> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did a fresh install from scratch, changing from (K)ubuntu to OpenSuSE
>> 10.2/KDE.
>> just wanted to burn an iso with k3b and found to my surprise that as an
>> ordinary user, k3b is NOT configured to have access to my DVD-Rom and
>> DVD-Recorder. Even worse, being an ordinary user, I have no chance to add
>> my DVD devices. K3b tells me, the devices are not found, although they
>> are there ;-)
>> I tried with user root and had no such problems.
>>
>> How can I cure this? I searched Google and the mailinglists last 1000
>> messages (I read through knode) but did not find an answer.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated
>> kind regards
>> Eberhard
>>
>>   
> ALT-F2 kdesu k3b will do the job.
> 
> HTH
well, this simplifies running k3b in root mode, but this is not what I am
after. 
Honestly, imho it is absolutely rediculous that you have to be root to burn
a cdrom. I last experienced this with xcdroast about five years ago.

thanks anyway

Eberhard

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