Howto: Running TeamViewer 6 as root on Linux

**b0nd** · 09-06-2011, 05:40 AM

While attempting to run teamviewer on BT5, as usual, I got the error:

Error: TeamViewer must not be executed as root!

This blog has remedy for previous versions.

The following is the solution for the current version of teamviewer 6.0.9258

Code:

/opt/teamviewer/teamviewer/6/bin# vim wrapper

and instead of "die" just replace that with "echo". This way it would run and every time remind you of security issues as well.

function validate_user()
{
local userid=$(id -u)

if [ $userid = 0 ] ; then
echo "TeamViewer must not be executed as root!"
fi
}

or simply just comment out the whole if - fi structure.

Cheers!

**Punter** · 09-06-2011, 11:57 AM

Nice Trick Bond just installed Teamviewer on Bt5 R1

**fb1h2s** · 12-27-2011, 03:40 PM

Huff guess where my google search landed for this

"back to the base", thank bond

**neo** · 01-03-2012, 02:43 PM

Nice post bond.

Just remove typo -

Originally Posted by b0nd

or simply just uncomment the whole if - fi structure.

I think it should be comment the whole if-fi structure

**b0nd** · 01-04-2012, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by neo

Nice post bond.

Just remove typo -

I think it should be comment the whole if-fi structure

Yup, that was a typo. Thanks for pointing it out Neo.

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