[Bug 10324] Running Wine as root should generate warning

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


Plamen Vassilev <plamen.vassilev at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Plamen Vassilev <plamen.vassilev at gmail.com>  2008-03-20 03:27:42 ---
I think that the best way is for wine to simply print an error/warning and
refuse to run as root unless told so by a command line switch (like
--allow-root-user or something). Warning could be easily lost when running
application which produces a lot of console output, and not seen at all if wine
is started by a desktop link. Using command line switch implies that the user
is both warned, and (hopefully) knows what they're doing. Thus (I think) we got
best from the both worlds, wine is not accidentally started by root, and
allowing to start wine as root if absolutely necessary. I imagine it could look
like:

root at host:~#wine notepad
ERROR: You are strongly discoraged to run wine as root user. (Some explanation
may follow.) If you absolutely need to run wine as root, please consult the
man/documentation/FAQ/README or whatever. Exitting!

the key point here is not to specify the exact option switch because it's
likely that most users will just copy/paste it on the command line and rerun
wine as root. At least making them run though the documentation (hopefully)
gives them additional education.


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