I just installed Amarok on my FC7 computer so I could access an MP3 player.  I see that I have to log in as root to use it.

I couldn't find a binary called amarok and am wondering how to assign root privileges to a user.

Thanks

Sounds fishy... generally you shouldn't have to run Amarok as root - are you sure you don't just need to add the user to the audio group?

The thread I found saying that I could connect to my Creative Zen V+ said it could only see the device as root and that seems to be the case in my install.  I can connect and see the device as root but not as user

You can always use

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kdesu amarok

. Although I wouldn't recommend it.

[guess] Do you use HAL/udev? Maybe you have to add the user to plugdev group? [/guess]

There are clearly ways to make your mp3 player accessible for a normal user. You should consider this instead of running arbitrary applications as root.

Look at hal/udev or libgpod (if you use it, you might find information solving your rights problem)

Could this be the old 'compile the application as root' trick?  Making the build executables, executable only with the root user?

I don't see any clues in libgpod and I don't have a hal/udev.

Any other suggestions

What I am saying is that your normal user seems to have no rights to access the ipod. You probably need to add your user to a specific group or change the rights of a file in /dev to make it accessible for your user.

Do you know what file that might be called?

Thanks

If you don't use hal/udev (are you sure about this?), couldn't it be something in fstab that needs to be changed?

Perhaps the original poster could offer some more information about their installed software and media device...

I have a creative zen v+ and have amarok 1.4 on a fedora 7 machine and also have gnomad2 installed