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... > > > > 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 harmful, > > > > 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? > > QUestion is ... Why do they do this? > > Ciao, Marcus > > >
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 people going out of their way to run Wine as root?
