VLC media player rejected to run as root
 

hi this is raju,
in my SUSE 11.0 system, i had one root user and a normal user.
i can play any media file in normal user account. when i logined as root account , and if i tried to play any media by using VLC it is giving as error like this :
please suggest any solution to me.
Thank You.

There is an amazingly similar recent thread posted here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ccount-703319/

and the advice would be the same.

Basically, it is dangerous to run as root for anything other than pure administrative/maintenance purposes. If you must insist on operating as root, please do not connect to the internet as such irresponsible behaviour puts the sane users of the world at risk.

That being said, if you must insist on operating vlc as root, you must compile vlc with the correct parameters, as indicated in the thread referred to previously.

hth,

additionally vlc is known for their numerous and dangerous security holes. You could execute code with malformed video containers etc., which is probably the reason, why they prevented it to be run as root.
It's really a bad idea.

Please, only use the root account for administrative tasks.

You can't make a OS foolproof

Just to echo repo's words, if you can avoid it, don't run things from roon that don't need to run from root.

Having said that however, you could potentially do it by running it from a non previlidged account while logged in with your root account. Found some instructions here on how to do that recently as I had the same question. In essence, you would still have some security in this manner:

http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress...col-specified/

Good Luck!
Devyn

This solution worked for me ...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...piling-748189/

mindlessmissy
why???
VLC should never be ran as root
i take it you also run firefox as root
and have turned off the firewall and turned off SElinux or AppArmor
and have NOT installed firefox's no-script not installed add block plus

and LIKE to run a rootkited system

Hey, here name is mindlessmissy :rolleyes:

Could you elaborate why you want to run vlc as root, or any other app for that matter?

Kind regards

??? I do not run any app as root, that don't have to be run as root. Maybe you quoted the wrong post, I just wanted to be a little bit sarcastic.

Yes, sorry for that.

Kind regards