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

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Feb 11 03:20:44 CST 2009


Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com> writes:

>> To abstract what you're saying here, you're suggesting to extend the
>> wineprefix ownership test to include $HOME when $WINEPREFIX is not set
>> and $HOME/.wine does not exist?
>>
>> That doesn't sounds like a bad idea to me. But I'm not so sure about
>> specifically testing on UID=0 or SUDO_USER.
> This specifically covers the one case that is broken for people who
> maybe can't be expected to know any better: running wine for the first
> time using sudo on ubuntu. I don't know why else $HOME would not be
> owned by you, but I've been assuming we want Wine to function in those
> cases (otherwise, we'd have added this test when we added the original
> ownership test, right?).

No we don't want Wine to function in those cases, and it is part of the
ownership test already.

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Alexandre Julliard
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