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'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? > >> > > > > 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. I.e., > > $ wineprefixcreate > > $ sudo wine notepad # gives an error about permissions > > > > but does: > > > > $ rm -rf ~/.wine > > $ sudo wine notepad > > > > give the same error (not at home or else I'd check). > > > > Something should be done regardless, I'd personally rather see a gui > > warning each time wine is run as root without a switch, but at least > > if it is done at wineprefixcreate, then it'll catch most (and the > > permissions check should catch those that run sudo on their user's > > .wine directory). Those two efforts combined should catch most issues, > > IMHO. > > > > > GUI warning won't work - in some configurations root does not have $DISPLAY > defined. So if a users logs in as a normal user then tries to do "sudo wine" > it will be limited to text terminal only. > > That btw is the main reason why we have to stop Wine from being run as a root.
And the question still stands, why they think "sudo root" is necessary for Wine ... We want to definitely fix the misconception in the users heads / documentation in the Internet. eg on http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9297&iTestingId=15991 like google just gave me... *sigh* Ciao, Marcus
