[Bug 10324] New: Running Wine as root should generate warning

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324

           Summary: Running Wine as root should generate warning
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.48.
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-misc
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: austinenglish at gmail.com


Since running Wine as root can cause so many problems/damage, there should be
some way to either warn/prevent users from doing so. Looking at gedit
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/) while editing some files in Ubuntu got
me thinking that a small popup warning that running Wine as root can cause
severe damage/etc and/or refusing to run as root would be a good idea.

Shouldn't be too terribly hard to implement, and could hopefully prevent some
users from damaging their systems/losing data.


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