[vlc-devel] commit: Bring back reckless user proofing. ( Rémi Denis-Courmont )

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vlc | branch: master | Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis at simphalempin.com> | Fri Jun  6 18:55:10 2008 +0300| [fa22e4435c9fc1d5d774567b150ba4fb587e2f1b]

Bring back reckless user proofing.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=fa22e4435c9fc1d5d774567b150ba4fb587e2f1b
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 src/vlc.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/vlc.c b/src/vlc.c
index 0a77e34..2ede943 100644
--- a/src/vlc.c
+++ b/src/vlc.c
@@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ int main( int i_argc, const char *ppsz_argv[] )
 {
     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, "");
 
 #ifndef __APPLE__