[Bug 15842] winecfg: You don't have a drive C. This is not so great.

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15842





--- Comment #20 from sub.mesa at gmail.com  2009-11-23 22:13:27 ---
Quite possibly true! thanks for that comment Austin.

Though, i would think this is a bug in itself. The drive-mappings work with
absolute paths; i enter /home/user/CD for example, not C:\CD or any relative
path. So i would assume Wine is able to accept that, without needing the Z:
drive mapping.

My other concern is about security, if i give the application access to Z: it
would be almost equavalent to full root access; it would have access to network
mounted filesystems and basically everything i hold deer. My philosophy is that
applications should only have access to things they have business to do with;
and should be denied access to any part which they have no reason to access.
Right now clicking a .exe might screw the entire system; while without Z
mapping the damage will be limited as the .wine directory acts as a sort of
sandbox to the application.

Is there any bug that focuses on this, what is the opinion of the Wine project
concerning security? Any chance Wine would be modified to allow running with Z
mapping, so that i do not put my entire system at risk?

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