Im new to slackware , comming from mandrake 8.1, all the right permissions were set automactically in mandrake. I want a user account that can read and write to almost any file but the boot lilo files, How would i set this up? Im the only one that uses my computer and id use root all the time if i could get on irc with it, but i cant. Im having trouble compiling sources under my user account, i have to be root to install anything. Ive spent 8 hours trying to get xchat GUI irc client to run as a user. I get "Permission Denied" on almost everything. I want to be practically root but logged in as a user. Is this possible? I added my user account to group "root" and now i cant "startx" , i get a error I "unknowncommand". I know this maybe sound dumb to some of you, but being the only one that uses this computer i feel like my computer is using me. Hope someone out there can help