Subject: Run "VLC Player" as a "root" user in Fedora/RHEL/CentOS 5x/6x
This hand's on assumes that you have installed VLC media player on your respective Linux platform & having "rpmforge & rpmfusion" repository in "/etc/yum.repos.d/" directory.
Perform below hand's now.
1) Install "hexedit" utility in linux using yum. The command is,
yum install hexedit
2) After successful installation, open "/usr/bin/vlc" using hexeditor as given below.
hexedit /usr/bin/vlc
3) Now, Press "TAB" key
4) Now, Press "Ctrl + S" key to search ASCII string.
5) In the given search box, type "geteuid" & replace it with "getppid"
6) Now, Press "Ctrl + X" to save the file.
Finally, your VLC player is ready to run as "root" user. Verify it & comments are always welcomed,if this post is useful to you.
This hand's on has been tested on "CentOS & RHEL 6.0" & will work with Fedora editions too.
Nishith N.Vyas
This hand's on assumes that you have installed VLC media player on your respective Linux platform & having "rpmforge & rpmfusion" repository in "/etc/yum.repos.d/" directory.
Perform below hand's now.
1) Install "hexedit" utility in linux using yum. The command is,
yum install hexedit
2) After successful installation, open "/usr/bin/vlc" using hexeditor as given below.
hexedit /usr/bin/vlc
3) Now, Press "TAB" key
4) Now, Press "Ctrl + S" key to search ASCII string.
5) In the given search box, type "geteuid" & replace it with "getppid"
6) Now, Press "Ctrl + X" to save the file.
Finally, your VLC player is ready to run as "root" user. Verify it & comments are always welcomed,if this post is useful to you.
This hand's on has been tested on "CentOS & RHEL 6.0" & will work with Fedora editions too.
Nishith N.Vyas
