austin987 wrote: > Do you not know what sudo does? It lets one user execute a command as another user, as long as he is authorized to do so in the sudoers file. ct@mybox$ sudo -u winuser wine start someapp.exe This would let me (ct) run wine out of wineprefix ~winuser/.wine - right? How does any root access occur? Am I missing something? Sudo also has many other options to configure the environment for commands thus executed, that may be useful to get this to work "correctly".