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NAME

       vlc-wrapper - a wrapper to drop priviledges with VLC

SYNOPSIS

       vlc-wrapper [OPTIONS]

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(1), sudo(8)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christophe Mutricy.

                                 Aug 31, 2008