Not to interrupt the ranting, but I thought I remember wine complaining about root once. Nonetheless, it does do some checking... For the sudoers out there, you'll get: wine: /home/tfino/.wine is not owned by you Close enough if you ask me. :) -Tres On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:04 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > > Should there be? > > > There is an ehancement for this. However, you should NEVER run a user > program as root. Many BAD things can and do happen if you do. > > I don't expect much to happen prior to 1.0 to fix this situation. > > James > > > -- - Tres.Finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080226/2289767b/attachment.htm
