On 24/03/2008, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Yes. This will remain an eternal source of confusion. > 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. Hmm ... how usable do you find this in practice? What safety do you get from running it as a different Unix user that you wouldn't get from just disconnecting Wine's "home" drive and Z: drive (the whole file tree)? - d.
