VLC as a root

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a
> closed WAN and I want to
> run VLC as root. How can I achieve it ?  Is there a way (beside building VLC ?)

No.  The block on running as root can only be disabled at build time,
by passing "--enable-run-as-root" to configure.

-T.C.