Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:02:30 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skype permissions Message-ID: <497103F6.3090701@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200901161234.41120.beech@freebsd.org> References: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net> <200901161234.41120.beech@freebsd.org>
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> On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the >> program is >> as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure >> out how to >> bring up the program as user, or if that is even possible. >> >> Rem >> > > This problem only happens on certain setups and we have been unable to find > out why it's happening. Skype should (and does) work as a normal user and > shouldn't require any permission changes. > > Please post the output of any errors you're seeing and the output of uname -a. > Also, how are you starting skype? What linux_base are you running? > > Beech > > The output of uname -a: FreeBSD bsd.remdog.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 1 14:37:25 UTC 2009 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The only way that I can start Skype is via the command line as root. If I try to launch the program as user this results: /usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied I am currently running linux_base-fc6-6_5 which I installed as per UPDATING 20080318. Rem
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