[Wine] Multiple instances of wine?

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sun Jan 2 20:09:33 CST 2011


"vitamin" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Secured wrote:
> > I have a user, toshiba, with root access
>
> Don't ever run Wine as root ... Even a different user with root
> access is considered root.

Depends what he means by "root access".

> This is not disabled Windoze, you do not have to run everything
> as admin.

Right.  On Windoze, anything run from an admin login will run with
admin privileges.  On Linux, adding a user to sudoers -- thereby
granting the _ability_ to run things as root via sudo -- does _not_
mean that everything that user runs will run with root privileges.



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