Bug#806851: VLC doesn't run with root user

[Rene Engelhard]

[ I am not the vcl maintainer ]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 06:41:00PM +1100, Daniel Harrison wrote:
>    This makes it quite difficult to work with on single-user machines where
>    root is the main account. My suggestion involves modifying it to work with

Erm, even on single-user machines ("only me uses this PC") you should work as your
user, not with root rights.

Alone because of safety and security.
Do NOT work as root for "normal", especially not for security-sensitive (net, unless
it can't be avoided, browsers, stuff handling input like videos, documents, .... Ever.
*If* something bad happens, it just happens to your account, not the whole system
(like malware..).

There is a reason there's a root account and a "normal" account, same as there is
"Administrator" and normal users on Windows (though most people don't use it which
IMHO is a big contributor in the malware problem Windows has.)

Regards,

Reme