On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 00:06, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: >> Poking holes in the firewall sounds to me like a firewall problem, not >> a Skype problem. > > If Skype has admin rights, it will use them stealthily. >
Why should Skype have admin rights? And what is "stealthily"? Do you expect it to pop up a big windows and ask to poke a hole in the firewall to work? What other application does that? >> What is this about super user rights? Does Skype attain elevated >> privileges when being run as a regular user? How does it do that, and >> wouldn't that be an OS bug? > > It's probably only an issue in the Windows world and then only with a user > whom is in the administrator's group. > Again, that's an OS issue, not a Skype issue. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=dh=vz5_l+ej4d3y5mahea3zn...@mail.gmail.com
