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I'm sure some people are running VLC under root, still in userland but can be very dangerous.
by Thaxll 13y ago
I'm sure some people are running VLC under root, still in userland but can be very dangerous.
- feepk 13y agoThis is one of the reasons why you have to use a wrapper for the VLC binary to execute it within a root environment. Said wrapper is usually in an extra package on Linux and not provided on Windows and OS X (it can be compiled manually of course). Like 10 people per year complain about not being able to run VLC as root, but then again, why should you?
- Crito 13y agoI'm sure there are some people using telnet and using "password" as their root password. At a certain point it becomes more than reasonable to say "Well don't do that."