[NTLUG:Discuss] Administrative Priviledges

[Ted Gould]

On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 10:55 -0700, Allen Meyers wrote:
> At boot of kubuntu I was presented with an error message I had 
> never seen before and was wondering if someone could share the 
> possible why's
> Message was Starting without administrative priviledges

Typically this is a program that needs to run with elevated privileges
but does not have them.  I'm not as sure about Kubuntu, but on standard
Ubuntu you can run the program with a "gksu" before it and you will get
prompted for you password to give the program administrative privileges.

		--Ted