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

[David Gerard]

On 24/03/2008, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
 > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:


>  >  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.

 > In Linux I agree. In Windows there is lots of software that requires
 >  folks to install and/or run as administrator. I sometimes suspect that
 >  some Wine users, nebies mostly, get confused about the difference
 >  between the two.



Yes. This will remain an eternal source of confusion.



 >  As much as I like Wine I am even concerned about running it in my
 >  regular user account as it seems to me someone could write a Windows
 >  program that then erases all my Linux user files, etc.



Hmm ... how usable do you find this in practice? What safety do you
 get from running it as a different Unix user that you wouldn't get
 from just disconnecting Wine's "home" drive and Z: drive (the whole
 file tree)?



 - d.