Re: VLC as a root

2012-01-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a > closed WAN and I want to > run VLC as root. How can I achieve it ?  Is there a way (beside building VLC > ?) No. The block on running as root can only be disabled at b

Re: VLC as a root

2012-01-15 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 15 January 2012 18:54:34 Kevin Wilson wrote: > I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a > closed WAN and I want to > run VLC as root. Do you know *why* it is discouraged? Security of a "closed WAN" doesn't have much to do with logging into a GUI as root. > How c

Re: VLC as a root

2012-01-15 Thread John Maclean
On 01/15/2012 04:54 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a closed WAN and I want to run VLC as root. How can I achieve it ? Is there a way (beside building VLC ?) rgs, Kevin. Why? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub