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

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Tue Feb 10 05:51:47 CST 2009


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Ben Klein wrote:
[...]
> > Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> > Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
> Interesting. xauth problem. Again, I'd be surprised if this happened
> with sudo. Not so surprised if it happened with "su -".

X access will very often be broken after a sudo or an su (e.g. Debian). 
In fact I believe it will only work on distributions which install 
special PAM packages. For all others you should use gksu, kdesu or sux.

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