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01-15-2009, 02:01 PM	#1
divyashree Senior Member Registered: Apr 2007 Location: Bangalore, India Distribution: RHEL,SuSE,CentOS,Fedora,Ubuntu Posts: 1,386 Rep:	running vlc player can anyone help me how to run vlc player as root ???

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open a terminal, become root and type
vlc

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VLC media player 0.8.6h Janus
starting VLC root wrapper... using UID 0 (root)
***************************************
* Running VLC as root is discouraged. *
***************************************

It is potentially dangerous, and might not even work properly.

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