vlc-wrapper1
A wrapper to drop privileges with vlc
Usage
vlc-wrapper [OPTIONS]
Overview
This manual page documents briefly the VLC wrapper to open privileged network ports. The ports it can open are 80, 443 and 554.
Options
They will be passed to VLC with no modification.
Usage
The preferred way is to use sudo :
$ sudo vlc-wrapper --option1 --option2
You can also set the SUDO_UID environment variable:
# SUDO_UID=1000 vlc-wrapper --option1 --option2
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01 to Debian 8 (Jessie): the text shown here
- Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)