VLC is a
free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays
most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming
protocols. It is one of the most used and popular Media player for Linux
users.Very easy to install as it’s available via almost any Linux distro’s
repo. However, in case you use Linux as root user like me, (or you’re a fellow
Kali Linux user) then you have already seen this error “VLC is
not supposed to be run as root. Sorry“. This post will go through the
steps required to runvlc as root in Linux (any Linux
to be precise).
In case
you don’t have VLC installed, you can use the
following command:
apt-get install vlc
But when
you try to run VLC as root, you will see the following error:
VLC Running As Root Error:
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
sure it is Set-UID root and cannot be run by non-trusted users first).
Fixing
“VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry” error
Though it is not advisable to run the applications
as root, but there is a way to do that. First of all, take a backup:
root@kali:~# cp /usr/bin/vlc /usr/bin/vlc-backup
Now open binary using :
This
will open binary in .
Press to open search window. Select “ ” and
press enter.
Type in and press Enter.
Now Press key on your
keyboard. This switches you to side of .
Replace with as shown in the image
below:
Press to
exit saving changes. Save as .
To revert your changes, you just need to
restore the backup created earlier:
root@kali:~# cp /usr/bin/vlc-backup /usr/bin/vlc
Pretty easy.
If
you have VLC installed and it is not running :
cp
/usr/bin/vlc /usr/bin/vlc-backup
needle=$(objdump
-d /usr/bin/vlc | grep euid | tail -1 | awk '{print
"\x"$2"\x"$3"\x"$4"\x"$5"\x"$6;}')
sed -ir
"s/$needle/\xb8\x01\x00\x00\x00/" /usr/bin/vlc
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