skype 1.4.0.118 need root privilege

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsd.org> (from Sun, 11 Nov 2007  
23:24:25 -0900):

> On Sunday 11 November 2007, Andrey Angelov said:
>> Hello I use freebsd 6.2 few days before I portupgraded skype up to
>> 1.4.0.118 it working fine but the problem is when I run it as
>> non-root user I got "problem with audio playback" when I run it as
>> root all working fine up to portupgrade I worked with 1.2.x and
>> there was not any problems. I checked all permissions and all look
>> fine. So what is the problem bug in skype or what ? I have no idea.
>
> I've gotten a couple of reports on this with 6.2. FWIW, I tested this
> on 6-STABLE before I ported it and didn't have any problems running
> as a non privileged user, so the  problem may disappear with the 6.3
> release. I can't reproduce the problem, (all my boxen are 7.0 and

Note: in -stable there are some bugfixes MFCed, no TLS or other 2.6 or  
2.4.20 related things.

Bye,
Alexander.

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