[Bug 10324] New: Running Wine as root should generate warning
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Mon Nov 5 21:25:37 CST 2007
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324
Summary: Running Wine as root should generate warning
Product: Wine
Version: 0.9.48.
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: wine-misc
AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
ReportedBy: austinenglish at gmail.com
Since running Wine as root can cause so many problems/damage, there should be
some way to either warn/prevent users from doing so. Looking at gedit
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/) while editing some files in Ubuntu got
me thinking that a small popup warning that running Wine as root can cause
severe damage/etc and/or refusing to run as root would be a good idea.
Shouldn't be too terribly hard to implement, and could hopefully prevent some
users from damaging their systems/losing data.
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