[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Fri Mar 21 15:33:28 CDT 2008


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(Could we do something about the forum interface breaking threads on the 
mailing list, please?)

On Friday 21 March 2008 08:20:52 am Timeout wrote:

> The .NET is poking it's nose in pretty much the whole Linux file system and
> it would not be to hard to make a .NET virus searching for Linux data files
> changing them as it wants.

That would be reason enough to disallow running as root, right there, AFAIAC.

> On the other side, I am against every restriction which you can't turn off
> (like in Winecfg) if you wish it to, I am already suffering too much under
> them.

Could you provide some examples?

- -- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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