Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:13:04 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>, Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: skype permissions Message-ID: <200901161313.04651.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <497103F6.3090701@comcast.net> References: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net> <200901161234.41120.beech@freebsd.org> <497103F6.3090701@comcast.net>
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On Friday 16 January 2009 13:02:30 Rem P Roberti wrote: > > 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. Also try chmod a+rx /usr/local/share/skype/skype Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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