Wine on OLPC
James Hawkins
truiken at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 19:53:46 CDT 2008
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> James Hawkins wrote:
> | On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> | <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> |> James Hawkins wrote:
> |> | On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> |> |> Would you consider patches to exchange the uid check for a rwx
> access
> |> check?
> |> | No, that check was added to keep users from running Wine as root.
> |>
> |> Then why not prevent users from running Wine as root? This does not
> |> prevent that.
> |>
> |
> | It prevents this case:
> |
> | $ sudo wine app.exe
> |
> | and we've already decided that we're not going to outright prevent
> | users from running wine as root. There are certain circumstances
> | where it's required.
>
> Then how about a patch that specifically prevents users from running wine
> as root over a profile that is not owned by root? I am trying to run wine
> as a non-root user over a profile owned by another non-root user that has
> been chmod'ed appropriately.
>
Running as root was just a specific example. The second case isn't
allowed either.
--
James Hawkins
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