[Bug 10324] Running Wine as root should generate warning

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Fri Mar 21 18:34:11 CDT 2008


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324


Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #20 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2008-03-21 18:34:11 ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> Yes, it is. There needs to be some way to work around the check if there's a
> good reason for it, and explicitly doing sudo wineprefixcreate is the way to do
> that. There's no reason for a user to run wineprefixcreate by itself, so it's
> not a problem to allow it.
> 

After I posted my comment I was starting to think that would be the reason. I
consider this bug fixed then. Should prevent most users from screwing up stuff,
but gives power users the ability when needed. Hooray comprimise!


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