Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:34:40 -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: <200901161234.41120.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net> References: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net>
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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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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