-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 March 2008 07:52:27 am Dan Kegel wrote: > I don't agree with him, but there you have it. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:32 AM > Subject: Re: loader: more stringent sanity check > To: Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: wine-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > "Dan Kegel" <dank@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Many, many newbies are running wine as root without > > > > really needing to. They are much more likely to screw > > up their systems this way. Are you saying we should stop > > advising against this? > > I have seen very little evidence that anybody screwed up their system by > running Wine as root, I think that's just paranoia. Of course it's > possible in theory, but you can screw up your system by running 'cat' as > root too, that doesn't mean it needs a warning. I would still recommend at least a warning, if not absolutley refusing to run as root, if only to enforce best practices. Wine is apparently newbie fodder these days: They probably don't know better regarding root permissions in general. Remember, ubiquitous root-equivalent privleges by default is one of the the things that has helped fuel the security cesspool in the Windows world; this security model is probably one wine should be deliberately incompatable with outside it's own emulated environment. > So yes, I'd say stop the "don't run as root" crusade, and fix the actual > problems that running as root causes, if there are any. What's wrong with enforcing common sense and using the OS's security model, exactly? - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH5BsrUCxPKZafKh0RAmM/AJ9KNftSKd2esVn653cQrG6tYq8LmwCgp5wy UqsgbVyZaupdXMjAWH7jfNU= =L/mG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
