Changeset fa22e4435c9fc1d5d774567b150ba4fb587e2f1b

Timestamp:

06/06/08 17:55:10 (3 months ago)

Author:

Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>

git-committer:

Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com> 1212767710 +0300

git-parent:

[d9799c1965d9d4781f5fd87310cd7052d790eb11]

git-author:

Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com> 1212767710 +0300

Message:

Bring back reckless user proofing.

Files:

• src/vlc.c (modified) (1 diff)

src/vlc.c

@@ -51 +51 @@
-{
-    int i_ret;
+
+    if (geteuid () == 0)
+    {
+        fprintf (stderr, "VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.\n"
+        "If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports\n"
+        "you can use %s-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root first and\n"
+        "cannot be run by non-trusted users first).\n", ppsz_argv[0]);
+        return 1;
+    }
-
-    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");