[Bug 20643] World of Warcraft launcher tries to change folder permissions (Not a Wine bug)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20643





--- Comment #26 from Ben Peddell <klightspeed at netspace.net.au>  2009-12-06 15:30:26 ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> (In reply to comment #24)
> 
> > Any breakages of the World of Warcraft launcher __on__ __Windows__

Reword:
Any breakages of the World of Warcraft launcher __on__ __Windows__ where the
user is unable to access the World of Warcraft directory using the permissions
it sets are almost certainly due to the administrator taking all steps to
remove the user from the BUILTIN\Users group.

> 
> Considering most of us here have stock installs, and wouldn't even know where
> to begin to start sludging up registry permissions or faking NTFS ACLs, fake
> user groups, etc, on our installation locations, it might be taken as a hostile
> response (or worse, a valid response and promptly closed) that end-users are
> somehow at fault for this problem.  It is irresponsible to try to blame this on
> users as the administrators of their own system or package maintainers for
> properly compiling wine.

Any breakages of the World of Warcraft launcher __on__ __Wine__ where the user
running the Launcher owns the directory yet is unable to access it are due to
wineserver looking at only the permissions explicitly given to the owner and
everyone SIDs when calculating the unix mode, and neither allowing the owner
access by default nor calculating the mode based on the full permission set
granted or denied to them.

Any breakages of the World of Warcraft launcher __on__ __Wine__ where the user
is not the owner of the directory but has full read/write/traverse access on it
can most likely be attributed to the World of Warcraft launcher trying to "fix"
the permissions on the directory every time it is started.

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