On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 24 March 2008 03:47:59 am Timeout wrote: > > > Can't you simply start by not allowing uncontrolled connexions to the > > Internet (like adding an offline-modus in winecfg instead on blocking the > > root)? > > What reason would one EVER need to run end-user software as root in the first > place? Wine or not, that's just terrible practice. > In Linux I agree. In Windows there is lots of software that requires folks to install and/or run as administrator. I sometimes suspect that some Wine users, nebies mostly, get confused about the difference between the two. I would personally *never* run Wine as root. About the only thing I run as root on my systems are the programs to install software, nothing else, at least in a terminal, etc. As much as I like Wine I am even concerned about running it in my regular user account as it seems to me someone could write a Windows program that then erases all my Linux user files, etc. Just my being paranoid, Mark
