[Wine] Re: confused newbie

ChristTrekker wineforum-user at winehq.org
Tue Aug 4 15:56:34 CDT 2009


austin987 wrote:
> 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).

No...using sudo won't give any more access to the computer than the user running sudo has to begin with.  As long as that user isn't root, what's the concern?







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