The script must be run as root

[eogas]

Currently on both my setups (Windows and Arch Linux), I have to run Awesomebox with root privileges. The first reason for this is the default use of port 80. Setting the port to something above 1024 (I used 8080) fixes the permissions issues overall on Windows, however Linux still chokes on an issue regarding the database. It's setup by default to be readonly for any user except root. I haven't found a good way around this yet (save for manually setting permissions on awesome.db)

[mrcaron]

For the port 80 thing, you can use authbind. I'll look into the database deal. The permissions should be linux filesystem things.