"A. Tres Finocchiaro" <tres.finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: wine-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 02/26/2008 08:36 PM To "James McKenzie" <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Wine <wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject Re: Help me please... 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 ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service._______________________________________________________________ This electronic message contains information from NewPage Corporation or subsidiary companies, which may be confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be used solely by the recipient(s) named. If you are not an intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this transmission or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify NewPage immediately at postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080226/b589e032/attachment.htm
