On Monday 25 February 2008, David Gerard wrote: > On 25/02/2008, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Do not run wine as root > > Do not run wine as root > > Do not run wine as root > > Is there any code in Wine to detect running as root and refuse to? No > Should there be? No. Wine runs on *nix. For 37 years *nix has worked on the basic assumption that users are intelligent, they are not idiots and there is no need to protect them from themselves. You are not supposed to do stupid things on *nix. In short, running Wine as root is a deliberate action. Solution: Just don't run the command that way. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
