FFmpeg and a thousand fixes

Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by Thaxll on Friday January 10, 2014 @02:54PM (#7038925)

I'm sure some people are running VLC under root, still in userland but can be very dangerous.

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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by Crito on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:38PM (#7039653)

I'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."

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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by feepk on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:33PM (#7039176)

This 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?

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