Alan McKinnon 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?
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.
Of course, times have changed and more of the 'rest of us' are using
linux, with a lower barrier of entry than the older *nixes. In my
case, I got my Computer Science Degree out of the same Cracker Jack box
that my Law Degree and Medical License came from.
John
