From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 19:00:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F42410656C6 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD38A8FC1E for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from [85.173.16.59] (helo=moosi) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1LOGOk-0000vP-6f; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:59:58 +0300 To: Rem P Roberti References: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:59:28 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net> (Rem P. Roberti's message of "Fri\, 16 Jan 2009 13\:14\:54 -0800") Message-ID: <83332495@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: skype permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:03 -0000 Rem P Roberti writes: > 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. Can you do "ktrace -i skype" as root and an ordinary user, then do "kdump -m 128 > output.txt" for both of them, locate those *.txt files somewhere at ftp/web and post a link here? WBR -- bsam