[Wine] Re: Windows SNMP Probe via Wine

[oiaohm]

mclovin you need to learn about Linux security. 

Really Root on Linux does not exist as most people think.   Root is basically a construct nothing more.  Root = Normal User + POSIX capabilities permissions.

If your kernel has posix file capabilities give wine assign CAP_NET_RAW permission to wine.  There is less security risk this way.

Every segment of the powers that root has can be turned on 1 at a time for a program if you know how.  Reason why I go threw people for even running wine as root on a Linux box ever.

Other ways of using posix file capabilities have existed since 2.2 Linux Kernel.