skype permissions

[Beech Rintoul]

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 at 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

What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 
/usr/local/share/skype and start with:

skype --resources=/usr/local/share/skype

Beech

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