wineserver: Added support for read/only Registry, similar to unprivileged users (try 2)
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org
Mon Nov 30 09:43:13 CST 2009
Paul Chitescu <paulc at voip.null.ro> writes:
> In the filesystem we use as backend for Registry all we can tell is if we can
> write to it or not so in the end one bit is all that's relevant (except if
> it's completely unreadable when wine should abort).
>
> No matter what an user does it cannot change that. We don't want a wine
> service running as root trying to replicate Windows access rights on the
> native system, do we?
Yes, the right approach to multiuser is to have wineserver and system
processes run as root, and normal processes run as different users.
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Alexandre Julliard
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