On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Timeout <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One example: > > "this directory is not owned by you" affecting users in 2 ways: > > 1. Users of distributions which file system is 90% owned by root, thus forcing them to use root if they legitimately want to use a software installing things in the tmp directory (in some distributions owned by roots). You can still run programs from the temp directory, you just can't have your wineprefix be there (if you run $ sudo wineprefixcreate, it allows an exception). > 2. Some people on dual system placing their documents on a Windows partition on FAT system. You can still do this, just make a directory somewhere, and navigate to it from Z:. This prevents the wineprefix from being in a root owned directory, not accessing files where the user has permission.
