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

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Thoose books are designed to be done a little in order.

http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html  Yes the system administrators guide covers fstab.

Linux does have really clearly define roles.  Users need to know nothing about the system.   Person setting the system up to work right is a Administrator.   All the guides on the tldp are written in the simplest English able some are even translated to other languages. 

Linux admin first concern is normally not viruses.  But things running at wrong security levels creating risks.    Run all stuff were able unable to break machine and the worse you risk is losing a user and what they can write to.  If you have backup of that area fixing is simple.  Restore backup.  Note no need to have a backup if the data is not important either as long as the rest of the system was not affected recovery is simple.

Second is a operation Host Intrusion detection system  ie HIDS.   HIDS don't need updated signatures to find viruses.  It working the other way.  These files are known good is there anything here I don't know method.
  Far more effective than any Anti-Virus could be.  All unknowns are detectable.  This is also backed up with a rootkit hunter of some form like http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ to make sure the HIDS is not being fooled into thinking stuff is not altered when it has been.

Third Backup system.

Forth applications users are running and there risks.   This includes wine contained to a single user.  clamav with real-time scanning addon can come into play.  Or a user that if you lose you don't care since it has no important access.

Linux Admin concern list is different.   If you do the first two takes out a lot of problems.   True Linux viruses are very rare.  More likely to get rootkited by a Linux rootkit and used in a bot net than a Linux virus.
  
It is nothing special for a Linux system to upgraded and upgraded and never reinstalled for the complete hardware life of the machine.  Something windows users normally never see.   Most common reason to reinstall is trying other distros.  Next rootkit infection/Security breach.   Then bad distro upgrade.  Finally Administrator error. 

Please note wine is quality status Beta so you don't call that  beginner software either.  So some more administrative skills are required to use it right.  On top of that.  Installation of software and setting of global  permissions is normally the sole domain of root/Administrator on Linux.  So using wine to its full does require some administrative skill to alter permissions to allow exactly what you want.   If you were happy using external media or stuff like that for the transfer you would not need to know how to alter a fat partition in fstab to make it mount read write to users you want to access it.  Pushing envelope is forcing you to need more skills sooner Timeout.

Ask in a suse channels(forum/irc locations) if yast has a graphical fstab editor.   Most distros have there own custom forms of it.  The /etc/fstab file is the same on all distros so long term people like me just learn to edit that.

Please get you order of worries around the correct way Timeout.  Windows order of worry is just wrong for Linux Unix Mac... Basically everything bar Windows.