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

[James Mckenzie]

Aurimas Fišeras <aurimas at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sent: Feb 9, 2009 7:45 AM
>To: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>Cc: wine-devel at winehq.org
>Subject: Re: ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)
>
>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

Correct.  However, this is not being given as the solution.  

Also, if the user is on an alternate wine prefix this would change to:

sudo chown -R <username>:users $WINEPREFIX

Is this in the FAQ somewhere?  

James McKenzie