vlc-wrapper

a wrapper to drop priviledges with VLC

Synopsis

vlc-wrapper [OPTIONS]

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  DESC="vlc-wrapper with telnet interface listening on
  4212"


  NAME=vlc


  DAEMON=/usr/bin/vlc-runner.sh


  DAEMON_ARGS=" -I telnet"

description

This manual page documents briefly the VLC wrapper to open priviledged 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

see also

vlc , sudo

author

This manual page was written by Christophe Mutricy.