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<br><font size=2><tt>Not to interrupt the ranting, but I thought I remember
wine complaining<br>
about root once.<br>
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Nonetheless, it does do some checking...<br>
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For the sudoers out there, you'll get:<br>
wine: /home/tfino/.wine is not owned by you<br>
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Close enough if you ask me. :)<br>
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-Tres<br>
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:04 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@sprintpcs.com><br>
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> David Gerard wrote:<br>
> > On 25/02/2008, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
wrote:<br>
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> ><br>
> >> Do not run wine as root<br>
> >> Do not run wine as root<br>
> >> Do not run wine as root<br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Is there any code in Wine to detect running as root and refuse
to?<br>
> > Should there be?<br>
> ><br>
> There is an ehancement for this. However, you should NEVER run
a user<br>
> program as root. Many BAD things can and do happen if you do.<br>
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> I don't expect much to happen prior to 1.0 to fix this situation.<br>
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> James<br>
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