Le Sat 26 Dec 09 à 18:27 +0100, Hoareau Jean Pierre a écrit : > I use Linux as single user at home and i test all news versions of Linux > Debian. I It will be fun to run VLC as root user (like the previous version > on LENNY, ETCH). This can be do by an option like "vlc -root" or an advice > like the previous version.
VLC is subject to a lot of input coming from the wild (aka the Internet) and there have been a lot of security issues notably in the demuxers of vlc and other media player. Hence upstream decided to block running as root by default. That is a decision that I and some other Debian and Ubuntu maintainer of the VLC package support. Regards, -- Xtophe _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
