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Bug #806851 [vlc] VLC doesn't run with root user
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806851: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806851
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[ I am not the vcl maintainer ]
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 06:41:00PM +1100, Daniel Harrison wrote:
>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
Erm, even on single-user machines ("only m
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 su
