[Wine] Re: wine errors

Kent Friis nospam at nospam.invalid
Sat Apr 29 08:00:07 CDT 2006


Den Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:46:22 +0200 skrev Molle Bestefich:
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>> > me at debian:~$ su
>> > Password:
>> dont run wine as root.
>> dont run wine as root ?
>> dont run wine as root !!
>
> Bah.  Someone needs to implement something like 'application profiles'
> that can limit any applications filesystem access, memory/cpu usage
> and network access rights.

That can be done. But no matter what, root will still be the way
to override it all.

Because it will always be necessary to override the system from time
to time, and that role is called root. That's the only reason you
need root in the first place - to override the system.

/Kent
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