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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="topic" style="problem"
      id="user-admin-problems">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="user-privileges"/>
    
    <desc>You can only do some things, like installing applications, if you have admin privileges.</desc>
    
    <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.1" date="2011-03-20" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

<title>Problems caused by administrative restrictions</title>

<p>There are a few problems that you might experience because you don't have <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrative privileges</link>. Some things require you to have admin privileges in order to work, such as:</p>

<list>
 <item>
  <p>Connecting to some networks/wireless networks</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Viewing the contents of a removable disk plugged-in to the computer, or the contents of a different disk partition (e.g. if you have a Windows partition)</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Installing new applications</p>
 </item>
</list>

<p>You can <link xref="user-admin-change">change who has admin privileges</link>.</p>

</page>