running vlc as root

[rezaa]

hi everybody..!
I have installed Vlc Media Player ... I use fedora14
when I want to run it, it says

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"VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first)."
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then I searched on the internet for solving this problem ! I found something that said: " configure --enable-run-as-root "

but this is my question that now that I have installed Vlc, what should I do? where should I do the configuration?
what should I do step by step ?

Help me... Tnx <3

[sea]

Why would you need to run a media player (VLC) as root?
I cant think of such a requirement.

Just run it as 'normal' user.
If you need rights to access the media file, its still better to get you the right CHOWN and CHMOD, rather than running VLC as root.

But thats just my 2 cents.

[Gareth Jones]

Yes, you should never log in as root unless you have good reason and know exactly what you're doing.

If you're logged on as a normal user, are you trying to run VLC from the command line just after installing it? If so, exit the shell and try again, you're probably still running the shell with root privileges.

Gareth

[Dutchy]

" configure --enable-run-as-root " looks like it is a compile option, you can't enable that after it is installed (or if you are installing it from the repositories).
I'm agree to the posters above me, do not run it as root and do not run anything as root unless it is necessary.