ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (try 2)

Vincent Povirk madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 20:27:21 CST 2009


The patch does not apply to current master.

Vincent Povirk



On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Been seeing it quite a bit recently in the forums. While the patches
> to break using sudo/su have helped a bit, seems some users are
> convinced they need to run wine as root. This adds a non fatal
> message, so no functionality is lost for those that _do_ need to run
> as root.
>
> Try 2:
> Made warning a bit more verbose. Changed geteuid to getuid, since we
> already check for that function, and geteuid is a bit is superfluous,
> since sudo should already be prevented.
>
> --
> -Austin
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