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

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Feb 10 11:25:27 CST 2009


Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Alexandre Julliard
> <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>> No, a warning that will get drowned in a bunch of other fixmes is not
>> useful.
>
> We could make it a popup warning, again, only on first run.

No, warning message boxes are just as useless, users have been
conditioned by MS to click through without reading.

If you really want to prevent users from running as root you have to
refuse to create the prefix and abort, and then make them jump through
hoops to create it manually, by running wineboot explicitly or something
like that.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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