On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org