On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:56:08AM -0500, Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's a good point, we could certainly prevent running wineprefixcreate
> > as root in that case too, that would probably solve most of the
> > p
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Austin English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I suspect it's more often people sudo'ing. I haven't tried it, but I
> > know that Alexandre committed a fix that checks if you're running with
> > sudo after the i
"Austin English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I suspect it's more often people sudo'ing. I haven't tried it, but I
> know that Alexandre committed a fix that checks if you're running with
> sudo after the inital .wine directory is made, but I'm not sure about
> what happens if you do it initially
"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Many, many newbies are running wine as root without
> really needing to. They are much more likely to screw
> up their systems this way. Are you saying we should stop
> advising against this?
I have seen very little evidence that anybody screwed up thei
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:48:31PM -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Austin English wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Lei Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Ubuntu, you cannot even login as root, they'd have to run "sudo
> >> wine". On many other distros, if you login as root, you'
Austin English wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Lei Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Ubuntu, you cannot even login as root, they'd have to run "sudo
>> wine". On many other distros, if you login as root, you'll get a
>> dialog warning you about it, and the desktop background will
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Lei Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Ubuntu, you cannot even login as root, they'd have to run "sudo
> wine". On many other distros, if you login as root, you'll get a
> dialog warning you about it, and the desktop background will be bright
> red. Are peopl
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:41:00PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > I hope you are not seriously suggesting that we do this...
> >
>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Many, many newbies are running wine as root without
> > really needing to.
>
> QUestion is ... Why do they do this?
They don't know any better...
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:41:00PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I hope you are not seriously suggesting that we do this...
>
> Seriously.
>
> > I'm not at all convinced that we need even a warning, there doesn't see
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Christopher Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Strictly speaking, running as root is a OS level issue, not a wine
> issue.
Wine is a newbie magnet, though; it's what pulls a lot of
Windows users onto this OS. So it's kind of our fault,
it's best if we clean up the
Strictly speaking, running as root is a OS level issue, not a wine
issue. That being said, wine is being friendly if it notes the
possible issues with running as root. That being said, letting the
user know the bypass switch or when wine doesn't start up right away
is also friendly.
Perhaps we
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stefaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> If we really need to have something then it should be at most a one-time
> >> warning (in a message box so people have a chance to see it) at
> >> wineprefixcreate time, with an easy way to disable it.
> >
>
Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I hope you are not seriously suggesting that we do this...
>
> Seriously.
>
>> I'm not at all convinced that we need even a warning, there doesn't seem
>> to be much concrete evidence that runn
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope you are not seriously suggesting that we do this...
Seriously.
> I'm not at all convinced that we need even a warning, there doesn't seem
> to be much concrete evidence that running as root is actually harm
"Dan Kegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> +if (!strcmp( argv[1], "--nosanitycheck" ))
> +{
> +perform_sanity_check = 0;
> +
> +/* Delete --nosanitycheck from argv */
> +
> +/* Size of argv before is argc +1 for argv[0], +1 for argv[argc]=0 */
> +/* Size of a
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