[Bug 11112] Does the fatal error if the config directory isn' t owned by the user make sense?

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11112





--- Comment #14 from Vitaliy Margolen <vitaliy at kievinfo.com>  2008-01-10 13:27:25 ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Dear Vitality,
> 
> Now I have a question for you: If I look into the wine directory, there is c:
> and  z:. Unfortunately I have many temp files ending in z:\temp (java classes
> or OLE files that I can't access even if I am the owner because the .NET
> reverted the rights). Now the z: does belong to root and there is thus no way
> that wine can access to the z: because c: is yolande and z: is root. How do you
> solve that then? Do you have a sudo for z: in the middle of an installation
> procedure (please note that z:\temp does also belong to root).
> 

rm -rf ~/.wine
Clearly it's screwed up. Don't f** with something you have no concepts about.
Still don't see a bug here. So far you've been talking about how badly you
managed to break your setup.


(In reply to comment #12)

> @Vitaliy: For those "smart" users running wine through sudo, I have written a
> patch which was rejected - maybe it gets its revival here.
Ask Julliard, not me.


(In reply to comment #11)
> Temp files should go under c: somewhere, if they go in z:\temp there's
> something wrong with your setup. In any case it's unrelated to this bug.
> 
> Still, the actual problem that my hack was fixing could be fixed a better way,
> so this bug should remain open.
> 

Hack what hack? I thought those not allowed in.


(In reply to comment #13)
> Do we want to support multiple users sharing the same prefix? I haven't seen
> too much about this lately, though I know in the past you could share a drive
> c, dosdevices and system.reg, but that the user.reg and userdef.reg had to be
> unique to the user. Is that still the case? If so, we could only check that
> user/userdef.reg are user owned/writable, but on the others, check that we have
> the correct permission, not ownership.
> 

No, this can not be supported. Wineserver does not sync with registry on the
disk. It only writes there on exit or periodically (if configured). So you'll
loose someone's changes.


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