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

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Feb 10 03:59:54 CST 2009


Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> writes:

> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Again, please demonstrate the exact sequence that leads to an actual
>> problem, not just vague hearsay of people reporting problems that may or
>> may not have anything to do with this.
>> 
> Will this work? BTW default Open SuSE configuration.
>
> vitaliy at dragon:~ $export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-root
> vitaliy at dragon:~ $sudo wine winecfg
> root's password:
> wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'

As you can see it's creating a new prefix under /root, so it's not
messing up the user's prefix. That's perfectly fine.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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