[Wine] confused newbie

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 15:58:06 CDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, ChristTrekker<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> austin987 wrote:
>> No. Using sudo will give windows apps full access to your computer.  Furthermore, sudo is intentionally made hard to use, to prevent people breaking their installs (to work around it, you need to patch the source code, or run as root itself, which is definitely a unix no-no).
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> No...using sudo won't give any more access to the computer than the user running sudo has to begin with.  As long as that user isn't root, what's the concern?

Do you not know what sudo does?

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-Austin



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