[Wine] Wine and sudo

[Martin Gregorie]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 07:25 -0600, atohom wrote:
> perryh wrote:
> > 
> > That sounds as if it is open source.  Maybe a Linux version already
> > exists?  If not, you could still try building it natively for Linux
> > 
> 
> Yes, FAR is open source, but developers don't have plans porting it,
> and you can't simply compile FAR for another system, as it is heavily
> relying on native Windows API.
>
No reason why you shouldn't port it to Linux and contribute the changes
back to the project. If they aren't interested you can always fork the
project and create a Linux version.

> I still hope there is a way to run wine with sudo, 
>
A thoroughly bad idea. NEVER run Wine as root, even via sudo, unless you
want your system to be trashed or powned.

> why it is requiring specifics owner for /home/atohom/.wine directory?
> 
Almost certainly because it doesn't understand file ownership and the
relationship between ownership and access permissions. It would be
surprising if it did, since Windows access control is primitive at best.
  

Martin