[Bug 10324] Running Wine as root should generate warning

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Wed Nov 7 10:45:06 CST 2007


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





--- Comment #9 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2007-11-07 10:45:06 ---
I was thinking more along the lines of locking up the system, wiping out
important files (/etc, /var, /boot, etc). Not their wine prefix. It may also
set some files in their home directory to be owned by root:root, which could
cause confusion.

Having seen several people file bugs about lockups/other strange errors after
having run wine as root/sudo was what made me think of this. While there are
some instances that people need to run as root and know what they are doing,
more often it's people who don't know what they're doing and think it will help
for some reason.


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