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

[Paul Johnson]

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Please learn to quote, and/or use the mailing list instead (at least until the 
bug has been fixed).  Without proper quotes and with the forum breaking 
threads, the forum falls well short of making posts readable.
http://learn.to/quote
http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users

On Sunday 23 March 2008 03:28:11 am Timeout wrote:
> But I feel like somebody cutting my hand because thieves are using hands.
> Like you said, users are using root for some reason and one has to
> understand *why* they are doing it.

You're still missing it:  You should NEVER use root for normal user tasks.  
This isn't a matter of user expectation, but basic security common sense:  
You should NEVER use administrator for normal user tasks in Windows, either, 
for the same reason.  It makes your system extremely vulnerable to bugs, 
viruses, trojan horses, etc.  Using the user security permissions provided by 
your operating system greatly limits the possible damage caused by 
misbehaving software to only the files you have write-access to (generally 
just your home directory and a few files in /tmp or /var/tmp).

> For my purpose I removed the check and I am using the software as usual as
> user, but telling people having a problem with Java just to go back to
> 0.9.49 is not a solution either.

Why?  If the other version is the problem, why is it that going back to a 
working version is "not a solution?"

> I remain to the fact that if no .wine directory were created as root then
> .wine would not have root's right from the first place because it would be
> installed as user. Other checks should be made non compulsory.

You're wrong.  Who owns your ~/.wine does not determine what user wine runs 
as.

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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