"vitamin" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Secured wrote: > > I have a user, toshiba, with root access > > Don't ever run Wine as root ... Even a different user with root > access is considered root. Depends what he means by "root access". > This is not disabled Windoze, you do not have to run everything > as admin. Right. On Windoze, anything run from an admin login will run with admin privileges. On Linux, adding a user to sudoers -- thereby granting the _ability_ to run things as root via sudo -- does _not_ mean that everything that user runs will run with root privileges.