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

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Mon Mar 24 11:50:20 CDT 2008


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On Monday 24 March 2008 03:47:59 am Timeout wrote:

> 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)?

What reason would one EVER need to run end-user software as root in the first 
place?  Wine or not, that's just terrible practice.

- -- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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