[Bug 10324] Running Wine as root should generate warning

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





--- Comment #7 from Vitaliy Margolen <vitaliy at kievinfo.com>  2007-11-06 21:05:51 ---
Anything GUI is not an option, because if you really logged in as root (not
sudo, but 'su -l root') then DISPLAY var will not be set. Thus "disabling" any
GUI not just for Wine but any other program. This also means no shell wrapper
will help here either.

So a big fat warning that they should not do such a stupid thing generated from
the wine loader (before they had a chance to destroy their WINEPREFIX). This
also eliminates registry. So the only choice left is an environment variable or
a command line switch.

Might be even an outright refusal to run as root if that env var is not set /
option not given.


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