I'm Running Suse linux on my system and never face such a problem . Your program that going to run by wine might want to read or write to an unauthorized location in memory ,that ask for being root . From: wine-users-bounces+AEA-winehq.org +AFs-mailto:wine-users-bounces+AEA-winehq.org+AF0- On Behalf Of Secured Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 11:10 AM To: wine-users+AEA-winehq.org Subject: +AFs-Wine+AF0- How do I make wine run for non root users? Hello everyone+ADs- I am a newb running Linux Ubuntu, as well as, WINE, and I am having a problem running the windows spider solitaire, as a warm up, with wine on a non root user id. The problem is that when attempting to run the game, the root password is asked, and that is something I don't want happening. Can you guide me on how to get this solve or point me in the right direction? I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and WINE 1.2.1 Thanks in advance for your help...