On 3/24/08, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > There's nothing special about Wine. Someone can also write a Linux program that erases all your user files. -- James Hawkins
