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Package: vlc
Version: 2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1
When I invoke vlc as the root user, the following error message is written
to stderr.
VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).
This makes it quite difficult to work with on single-user machines where
root is the main account. My suggestion involves modifying it to work with
non-root users, which seems like it could be done by defining
ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT during compilation.
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tags 806851 + wontfix
thanks
On 2015-12-02 18:41:00, Daniel Harrison wrote:
> Package: vlc
> Version: 2.2.0~rc2-2+deb8u1
>
> When I invoke vlc as the root user, the following error message is written
> to stderr.
>
> VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
> If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
> you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
> cannot be run by non-trusted users first).
>
> This makes it quite difficult to work with on single-user machines where
> root is the main account. My suggestion involves modifying it to work with
> non-root users, which seems like it could be done by defining
> ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT during compilation.
No, we are not going to change that. I see no good reason to support playing
media files as root on a distribution wide level. If you need this for whatever
strange reason not covered by vlc-wrapper, you will need to build the package
yourself and add ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT.
Closing as wontfix.
Cheers
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