[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 #22 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-11-23 22:25:04 ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> 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.

Somewhat, but it tries to see what current directory you are in, which is
giving you your problem.

> 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?

Wine by itself can't do that. You want something like SELinux or AppArmor.

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