[Wine] Re: Wine Client Error:b: write: Bad file descriptor

Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle at yahoo.fr
Fri Jun 23 14:26:40 CDT 2006


Hi Ian,
--- iwoloschin at gmail.com a écrit :
> 
> Regarding running Wine as root, I wasn't aware that Wine could do stuff
> like that, though I suppose there's no reason it wouldn't be able to do
> that as root.  I'll let my boss know about it, thoguh I'm not sure
> they'll care too much.
> 
Using root for Wine gives it the power of writing _everywhere_ it is told to.
A "normal" non privileged user account doesnt have write power.

Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle (aka Usurp)
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