[Wine] confused newbie

[Austin English]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:59 PM, ChristTrekker<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> austin987 wrote:
>> You'd have to patch the source code. Search the forum, it's been explained before several times.
>
> Ack, that sounds messy.  Maybe it would be easier to run wine via sudo, so all the Windozey stuff stays under one user as intended.

No. Using sudo will give windows apps full access to your computer.
Furthermore, sudo is intentionally made hard to use, to prevent people
breaking their installs (to work around it, you need to patch the
source code, or run as root itself, which is definitely a unix no-no).

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-Austin