VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. – Solution

VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. – Solution

by SYED ALAM

in LINUX, TROUBLESHOOTINGS

Today i captured one tutorial using recordmydesktop utility on my backtrack and decided to view it but unfortunately backtrack 5 Linux didn’t include a good media player to do entertainment  when you get bored with dirty work.

Anyways, i installed vlc using following command ;
aptitude install vlc

And tried to run vlc as root i got error on my terminal ;
vlc

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 error says straight forward vlc can not be run as root privileged user. What to do now? Don’t be panic. Here is the hacked solution 
vi /usr/bin/vlc 
search for geteuid and replace it with getppid

Save file & Exit.

Now it should work, try to run it again 

Note : This is a very bad practice to run certain application with administrative rights. Do it at your own risk! 

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/SoulSpirit/p/3320546.html