Ethereal as normal user

[Sylhouette]

Hello all

Some little questions regarding envirement and ethereal.

1.) i have installed ethereal but as a normal user i can not run ethereal (it runs) but no nics can be selected.

How can i make ethereal un as root as normal user.
I tried with pam but it does not work.
(With Red Hat you get a nice popup box to enter roots password so it runs as root )

2.) When i open a terminal in gnome 2.2 it give me bash.
When i do env-update it gives me the colored user prompt why does it not start up with that prompt.

3.) when i make an alias like alias vi=vim it works but when i reboot or log out my aliases are gone. how to keep these aliases.

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[masseya]

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