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

[Austin English]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Timeout <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Now next question about Viruses:
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>  You are starting from the point that I will get viruses.
>  Just by using Trados, an off line tool which is at the most checking another instance of a network because of licensing.
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>  How are you assuming that I could get that virus. You can stop altogether working on the BITS or on auto-updates on software.
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>  Can't you simply start by not allowing uncontrolled connexions to the Internet (like adding an offline-modus in winecfg instead on blocking the root)?
>  The virus I got on Windows was per auto-upload, even with 2 firewalls, a router and an antivirus.
>  The concerned software was refusing to open without being able to check the license online, thus one had to allow it. Someday it autoupdated with a virus.
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>  Don't you think the first concern would be no automatic download of executables? I don't think getting an answer about a license is an executable.
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It is STILL POSSIBLE TO RUN AS ROOT. You have to either login as root,
sudo su to root, or run sudo wineprefixcreate first then run your apps
with sudo. The behavior you speak of is very inconsistent with
windows, and is not something wine needs to/should do.

If you want to run your program as root and feel safe/the need to do
that, go for it. However, for the majority of users, that is not the
case, and this prevents accidentally doing so. If power users need to
do so, they have the ability with the aforementioned exclusion.