ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)
Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu
Wed Feb 11 08:35:26 CST 2009
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Ben Klein wrote:
>> This is not a problem with Wine, this is OpenSUSE breaking the
>> environment when sudo is called. Remember, Wine is not the only X11
>> app out there. Others will need $DISPLAY working!
> This is something called security....
No, the whole point of using sudo is that it removes the necessity of
anyone other than root knowing the root password. If OpenSuSE's default
config requires anyone that needs elevated privileges to know the root
password, it is broken. Using a properly configured sudo, the non-root
users are allowed to execute a (possibly limited) number of commands with
root privileges, but authenticating using their OWN password.
Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu
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