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

Aurimas Fišeras aurimas at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 08:45:44 CST 2009


James Mckenzie wrote:
> Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>[...]
> New wine installation:
> 
> su (no dash so root's environment is not picked up)
> wine notepad
> install various programs and use them.
> exit
> 
> User logs in a second time after learning how to properly use Wine.
> Attempt to do anything with Wine in user space.  Cannot do due to permissions problems.
> 
> The solution:
> 
> sudo rm -rf .wine
No, the solution is
sudo chown -R user:user .wine



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