Running Wine as a user

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On 30 Mar 2001, Cliff McDiarmid wrote:

> > One other way you can reliably get that error is if root has made the
> > wine binary suid and owned by root.  Wine is not designed to be suid,
> > but maybe some misguided packager has set it up that way.
>
> That was the problem, the binary was owned by root.   Corrected this and wine worked first time from the user.     Why oh why is this not mentioned in the docs on setting up wine.   It mentions having a .winerc file for the user etc., but nothing about the above.
>
> thanks
>
> MAC

It is no harm for root (or any other user) to own wine.  If it has the
suid attribute it executes on behalf of the user who owns it, and will
fail for any other user.  Without the suid attribute, it executes with
the userid of the user who runs it.  This can be any user who has
execute permission.  It is not intended to be suid.

chmod u-s <wine binary>

Lawson

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