[Wine] confused newbie

[Austin English]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, ChristTrekker<wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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".

Didn't know you were sudoing to a specific user (not root), sorry.

May work...the winuser would need to own the .wine directory and
parent directory. You'd need to make sure that $DISPLAY and other
variables are properly set.

-- 
-Austin