Re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-17 Thread Federico Vecchiarelli
As a workaround, I ended up creating an empty .wine folder on each of the users' home directory and then I did a symlink of the contents in my /home/wine/ but not of the folder itself. I'm not deeply involved in wine and I don't know the reasons of this patch but it would seem reasonable for t

Re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-16 Thread Kai Blin
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 20:47:03 Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 19:57:52 schrieb L. Rahyen: > > We really need to fix that bug to allow reliable multiuser setups... > > Maybe the proper solution is one wineserver running globally, as a special > user("wine", "root" o

Re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-16 Thread L. Rahyen
On Wednesday January 16 2008 19:47:03 Stefan Dösinger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 19:57:52 schrieb L. Rahyen: > > We really need to fix that bug to allow reliable multiuser setups... > > Maybe the proper solution is one wineserver running globally, as a special > user("wine", "root" o

Re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-16 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 19:57:52 schrieb L. Rahyen: > We really need to fix that bug to allow reliable multiuser setups... Maybe the proper solution is one wineserver running globally, as a special user("wine", "root" or whatever), started at system boot. A global registry and dosdevic

Re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-16 Thread L. Rahyen
On Wednesday January 16 2008 16:01:55 Steve Brown wrote: > I see in the comments on this bug, that the concern is with multiple > instances of wineserver running on the machine at one time -- that's not a > major issue in the use case I envision. The multiple wineservers would > not be running at

Re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-16 Thread Steve Brown
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > "Federico Vecchiarelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ok, to the point. The patch mentioned below prohibits wine from running >> any application which is inside someone else's folder, even if you have >> access to it. In my case, I wanted to make on

re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-16 Thread Dan Kegel
"Federico Vecchiarelli" wrote: > ... I wanted to make one unique installation > available to several users. Because of this patch, there is no > workaround that could be implemented, forcing me to either run a script > changing the owner of the folders for every user as they want to use the > appl

Re: Request for patch removal

2008-01-16 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Federico Vecchiarelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, to the point. The patch mentioned below prohibits wine from running > any application which is inside someone else's folder, even if you have > access to it. In my case, I wanted to make one unique installation > available to several user