[Wine] Re: windows privileges

[vitamin]

kodefive wrote:
> For example: 
> -The privilege to be able to write to files under "program files"
> -To be able to change stuff in the registry
> -To be able to register new ActiveX components
> 
> I suppose that these are things that are possible to do when using Wine normally, but is there a way to get the behavior that a normal (not admin) user would get in WinVista?

Because Wine entirely run by _A_ user it has no concept of user privileges that normal windows has.
The user running Wine has FULL control over all aspects of Wine, has full access too all files and registry inside Wine. And is more powerful then administrator on Windows.

However this does not extend to the entire OS Wine runs on. You are still _A_ user and don't get any more access to say /dev/hda then you already have. So if say virus wants to destroy MBR it won't be able to, if you are a regular Linux user (as you should be).