That maybe on bsd or something L.Rahyen. Austin English wrote: > Some wine functions require root access, ICMP ping for instance. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-posixcap.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01POSIX-capabilities Ping does not require root on 2.6.24+ Linux kernel or any older Linux kernel with selinux or smack LSM's. On Linux platforms the time of wine requiring root is past. With upto date Kernels you would set capabilities instead. This does not allow system wide damage. Since only the segments need to be given to wine. All the ones I have seen are network related. Older kernels you create profiles.
