How to run vlc player as root without compiling again
Vlc player exits with an error if you try to run it from terminal as root. However, there is a trick to run vlc player as root (without recompiling). The credit of the post goes to Net_Spy (http://www.linuxquestions.org/). The steps are as follows.
Step-1: Open a hex editor preferably ghex/khex. If u didn’t have one then download ghex editor from here and install (after resolving dependencies).
Step-2: Now open vlc binary (by default /usr/bin/vlc) into the hex editor, make a backup before that.
Step-3: Now search for the following string
geteuid
Step-4: Edit the string as follows
getppid
Step-4: click on Save
That’s all. Thanks





razibdeb 12:28 am on January 22, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks.