[Wine] Help me please...

[Austin English]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008, David Gerard wrote:
>  > On 25/02/2008, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Do not run wine as root
>  > > Do not run wine as root
>  > > Do not run wine as root
>  >
>  > Is there any code in Wine to detect running as root and refuse to?
>
Sort of. Wine detects if you run as a user different than the current
owner of the registry files. See also bug 10324:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324

>
>  > Should there be?

Maybe. However, some stuff requires being run as root (ICMP/etc). Most
of the time, you shouldn't but there are rare cases where it is
needed. Unless you know better than wine/your computer (and you
probably don't), then you shouldn't run wine as root (or anything else
not needing root privileges).

-Austin