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Re: AVFoundation video not playing in root mode
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Re: AVFoundation video not playing in root mode


  • Subject: Re: AVFoundation video not playing in root mode
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 09:29:52 -0400

On May 27, 2014, at 6:08 AM, Navneet Kumar <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The code I’m using is as follows: (it works well and videos plays when logged in as admin user, but doesn’t play when the app is run as root):

Please stop trying to run your application as root. If Apple wanted to support this configuration, they wouldn’t have made AppKit quit immediately if it detected it was running as setuid root. And they wouldn’t have told Uli that running apps as root is an untested configuration:

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/280214-allow-only-root-admin-users-to-execute-the-cocoa-app.html

--Kyle Sluder

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