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      id="user-admin-problems">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#privileges"/>

    <desc>You can only do some things, like installing applications, if you have admin privileges.</desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="review"/>
    <revision version="13.10" date="2013-10-23" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>

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

  <p>You may experience a few problems if you don't have
 <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrative privileges</link>. Some tasks
 require admin privileges in order to work, such as:</p>

<list>
 <item>
  <p>Connecting to networks or wireless networks</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Viewing the contents of a removable disk connected to the computer, or the
 contents of a different disk partition (e.g. 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>