[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

[Paul Johnson]

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Please use the mailing list, not the forum, as the forum is breaking threads 
and not setting up quotes correctly, making forum posts nearly unreadable.

On Friday 21 March 2008 11:15:45 pm Timeout wrote:
> One example:
>
> "this directory is not owned by you" affecting users in 2 ways:
>
> 1. Users of distributions which file system is 90% owned by root, thus
> forcing them to use root if they legitimately want to use a software
> installing things in the tmp directory (in some distributions owned by
> roots).

/tmp should be owned by nobody:nogroup with a mode of 777.  Otherwise, 
everything else you said applies to most (all?) distros out there.  This is 
NOT a legitimate reason to run wine as root.

- -- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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