[Wine] Help me please...

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com
Mon Feb 25 19:04:53 CST 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?
> Should there be?
>   
There is an ehancement for this.  However, you should NEVER run a user 
program as root.  Many BAD things can and do happen if you do.

I don't expect much to happen prior to 1.0 to fix this situation.

James




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