[Wine] Help me please...
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 11:53:30 CST 2008
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 25/02/2008, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Do not run wine as root
> > > Do not run wine as root
> > > Do not run wine as root
> >
> > Is there any code in Wine to detect running as root and refuse to?
>
Sort of. Wine detects if you run as a user different than the current
owner of the registry files. See also bug 10324:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324
>
> > Should there be?
Maybe. However, some stuff requires being run as root (ICMP/etc). Most
of the time, you shouldn't but there are rare cases where it is
needed. Unless you know better than wine/your computer (and you
probably don't), then you shouldn't run wine as root (or anything else
not needing root privileges).
-Austin
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