On 05/22/2011 10:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:30, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:Because it thinks it needs system privs? Just like any other app that runs as root.Do you run Skype as root? And if you do, then there is no basis to complain about Skype then using elevated privileges. Just as you don't run Iceweasel as root, don't run Skype as root.
I was thinking of setuid() magic. -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749