ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Mon Feb 9 08:26:16 CST 2009


James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> writes:

> Second, the problem is that newbies, figuring that their favorite
> program will not run as an ordinary user, gets a wiff that root has
> more privileges, will attempt run as root totally hosing their Wine
> directory.  This then starts the 'you should not run Wine as root'
> mantra on Wine-Users.  This then causes the newbie to question why did
> I go to Linux/Wine when I had a perfectly running Windows system?

Please explain how running as root will screw their Wine directory. If
that's really true, surely it should be fixed instead of simply throwing
out a warning and proceeding.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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