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! 😉
13 replies on “VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. – Solution”
It saved my time. I am able to run vlc from root user.
Thanks.
Great!
I had tried to compile VLC with the option configure “./configure –enable-run-as-root” but it did not work.
When I saw this post, I used the “graphic version of Vi “sudo apt-get install vim-gnome” and gvim /usr/bin/vlc. With the search feature, I replaced geteuid with getppid, and like magic VLC is up and running.
A huge thanks for you!
That’s good.
small and usefull
thks
Nice and clean. Running VLC on my root account.
Thanks and deep bow
thx bro
:O thanks 😉
Hey Thanks for your this suggestion
its working for me, since last couple of days i am facing the issue but now its resolve
Thanks a lot again
i did what you have mentioned but it is not working
share more details.
Many many tanx …
Was looking for such a thing 3 days
thanks bro this is really magic for me.
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