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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 04:41:03 +0000, Suddn wrote:

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> Subject: Can't enable punkbuster
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> I just setup Quake 3 on my Linux box after not playing it for a LONG
> time.  I upgraded to the newest point release and discovered a thing
> called punkbuster.
> 
> The problem is that it is disabled by default and unless I run Quake 3 as
> the root user I can't enable it.
> 
> It sounds like a permission thing to me.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks

Does the (non-root) user have his own directory?  If not then yes you'll
have permission problems.

Look in ~/.q3a for the users config files.