[Wine] Re: confused newbie

[DaVince]

ChristTrekker wrote:
> 
> austin987 wrote:
> > Do you not know what sudo does?
> 
> It lets one user execute a command as another user, as long as he is authorized to do so in the sudoers file.
> 
> ct at mybox$ sudo -u winuser wine start someapp.exe
> 
> This would let me (ct) run wine out of wineprefix ~winuser/.wine - right?  How does any root access occur?  Am I missing something?  
> 
> Sudo also has many other options to configure the environment for commands thus executed, that may be useful to get this to work "correctly".

A regular "sudo" is exactly that - "Super User DO". Using the -u flag rather temporarily logs you in as a different user for the duration of the command.