ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 08:45:45 CST 2009
2009/2/9 James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>:
> Thus, the need for the warning. Experts tend to know what they are doing, newbies don't for the most part. And yes, I borked many a system as a newbie and as an expert (building kernels for RedHat/Fedora for my Thinkpad.
Yep. The problem is that newbies are coming from Windows - (a) where
the answer to inability to do something is to try again as
administrator (b) which sometimes takes precautions to keep you from
shooting your foot off.
Solutions:
1. Get better newbies. (Strikes me as unlikely.)
2. Something to help stop them shooting their foot off that won't
hamper those who really want to do this.
- d.
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