First of all Let me tell you that this HOWTO is performed on Fedora Ubuntu Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. This post is applied for TeamViewer Version 5 and 6.
Here is the post on TeamViewer on Linux Again. Hoping that you guys enjoyed previous post regarding TeamViewer Installing on Linux.
Now Here I am going to post 1 trick and tips for TeamViewer. Many Users who likes to work as root and but in TeamViewer 5 there is restriction for Running as root.
Whenever you are trying to run TeamViewer as root from Terminal, You will get message like below :-
TeamViewer must not be executed as root!
By Following very few steps you will be able to run TeamViewer as root.
Perform Following Steps to run TeamViewer As root.
- Of Course you have to be root to perform these all steps.
- Please Open Terminal on Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS ( Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal )
Please Open Terminal on Ubuntu ( Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal )
- Now Lets find where exactly teamviewer command is. Execute Following command to Find it out.
[root@ask4itsolutions.com]# which teamviewer
/usr/bin/teamviewer <– You will get this kind of output on your terminal
- Be safe So First Lets take a backup of Original TeamViewer Command. Execute Following Command
cp /usr/bin/teamviewer /usr/bin/teamviewer-orig
- Let’s Open teamviewer file. Here in /usr/bin/teamviewer they have put the restriction for root user. So Lets Remove it. Open File By Executing vim /usr/bin/teamviewer and You will able to see following lines into /usr/bin/teamviewer :-
userid=$(id -u)
if [ $userid = 0 ]
then
echo TeamViewer must not be executed as root!
exit 1
fi
CHANGE those line to
##userid=$(id -u)
##if [ $userid = 0 ]
##then
## echo TeamViewer must not be executed as root!
## exit 1
##fi
Save and Exit this file ( Press “ESC” then Press :wq! )
- To Open TeamViewer from GUI. Click on Applications -> Internet -> TeamViewer
- To Open TeamViewer from Terminal in Fedora, Red Hat and CentOS. Click on Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal. On Terminal Execute Command teamviewerTo Open TeamViewer from Terminal in Ubuntu. Click on Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal. On Terminal Execute Command teamviewer
- That’s It Guys
Read more:
Howto: Running TeamViewer 5/6 as root on Linux | Fedora | Ubuntu | RHEL | CentOS @ All Linux User's Blog http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2011/01/01/how-to-running-teamviewer-5-6-as-root-on-linux-fedora-ubuntu-rhel-cento/#ixzz1GZGetinL All Linux User's Blog | Ask4 IT Solutions | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | India |
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