.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH VLC\-WRAPPER 1 "Aug 31, 2008" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME vlc-wrapper \- a wrapper to drop privileges with VLC .SH SYNOPSIS .B vlc-wrapper .RI [ OPTIONS ] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B VLC wrapper to open privileged network ports. The ports it can open are 80, 443 and 554. .SH OPTIONS They will be passed to .B VLC with no modification. .SH USAGE .PP The preferred way is to use .B sudo : .PP \& $ sudo vlc-wrapper \-\-option1 \-\-option2 .PP You can also set the SUDO_UID environment variable: .PP \& # SUDO_UID=1000 vlc-wrapper \-\-option1 \-\-option2 .PP .SH SEE ALSO .BR vlc (1), .BR sudo (8) .PP .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Christophe Mutricy.