On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > Sort of. Wine detects if you run as a user different than the current owner of the registry files. See also bug 10324: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324 > > > Should there be? Maybe. However, some stuff requires being run as root (ICMP/etc). Most of the time, you shouldn't but there are rare cases where it is needed. Unless you know better than wine/your computer (and you probably don't), then you shouldn't run wine as root (or anything else not needing root privileges). -Austin
