[Wine] Help me please...

John R. Sowden jsowden at americansentry.net
Mon Feb 25 12:22:22 CST 2008


Alan McKinnon 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?
>>     
>
> No
>
>   
>> Should there be?
>>     
>
> No. Wine runs on *nix.
>
> For 37 years *nix has worked on the basic assumption that users are 
> intelligent, they are not idiots and there is no need to protect them 
> from themselves. You are not supposed to do stupid things on *nix.
>
> In short, running Wine as root is a deliberate action. 
> Solution: Just don't run the command that way.
>
>   
Of course, times have changed and more of the 'rest of us' are using 
linux,  with a lower barrier of entry than the older *nixes.  In my 
case, I got my Computer Science Degree out of the same Cracker Jack box 
that my Law Degree and Medical License came from.

John




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