[Bug 10324] Running Wine as root should generate warning

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





--- Comment #19 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>  2008-03-21 17:34:34 ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> 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).

Yes, it is. There needs to be some way to work around the check if there's a
good reason for it, and explicitly doing sudo wineprefixcreate is the way to do
that. There's no reason for a user to run wineprefixcreate by itself, so it's
not a problem to allow it.


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