ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (try 2)

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 21:45:18 CST 2009


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Vincent Povirk
<madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The patch does not apply to current master.
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> Vincent Povirk
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> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Been seeing it quite a bit recently in the forums. While the patches
>> to break using sudo/su have helped a bit, seems some users are
>> convinced they need to run wine as root. This adds a non fatal
>> message, so no functionality is lost for those that _do_ need to run
>> as root.
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>> Try 2:
>> Made warning a bit more verbose. Changed geteuid to getuid, since we
>> already check for that function, and geteuid is a bit is superfluous,
>> since sudo should already be prevented.
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>> --
>> -Austin
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Thanks. Killed my hard drive this morning, so edited previous diff
rather than making a new one. Resending a fresh one now.

-- 
-Austin



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