> Missed the best bit. Using a loader program running as root under older > Linux kernels it could assign the capabilities and still run wine as a > normal user with the network access it needs. > > All that is really in 2.6.24 kernel is a simple way to avoid having to run > security raising program to get there or use a LSM. > > So the need to have wine itself running as root is well and truly passed > on linux. > Not everyone that runs Wine does so on Linux though. I personally run it on OS X - as do many others. I dont doubt there's people running Wine on other *nix variations as well. Solaris, FreeBSD and OS X are mentioned on the front page of wineqh.org as working with Wine, not to mention there are binary downloads for Solaris, FreeBSD, PC-BSD and Windows linked to from the download page. And instructions for building Darwine on OS X are available from Wine's wiki as well. Just because it works in Linux doesn't mean its perfect. OS X for example cant create a socket of type SOCK_RAW without root.
