[Wine] Fwd: Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 12:32:08 CDT 2008
On 24/03/2008, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
> > What reason would one EVER need to run end-user software as root in the first
> > place? Wine or not, that's just terrible practice.
> In Linux I agree. In Windows there is lots of software that requires
> folks to install and/or run as administrator. I sometimes suspect that
> some Wine users, nebies mostly, get confused about the difference
> between the two.
Yes. This will remain an eternal source of confusion.
> As much as I like Wine I am even concerned about running it in my
> regular user account as it seems to me someone could write a Windows
> program that then erases all my Linux user files, etc.
Hmm ... how usable do you find this in practice? What safety do you
get from running it as a different Unix user that you wouldn't get
from just disconnecting Wine's "home" drive and Z: drive (the whole
file tree)?
- d.
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