[Bug 10324] Running Wine as root should generate warning

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





--- Comment #18 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2008-03-21 14:24:57 ---
With a few patches by Alexandre, this is mostly fixed. For example (these are
all in wine 0.9.58):

$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ sudo ~/wine-git/wine notepad
wine: '/home/austin' is not owned by you, refusing to create a configuration
directory there

$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ wineprefixcreate
$ sudo ~/wine-git/wine notepad
wine: /home/austin/.wine is not owned by you

and if I login as root (not recommended, obviously, but power users may want to
for some reason).
# wineprefixcreate
/root/.wine updated successfully.
# rm -rf ~/.wine
# wine notepad
wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully.

However, there's still one issue:
$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ sudo ~/wine-git/tools/wineprefixcreate 
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
/home/austin/.wine updated successfully.
$ sudo ~/wine-git/wine notepad

Still works fine. Not sure if that was by intention or not (I have the feeling
it wasn't).


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