[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"
James Hawkins
truiken at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 12:32:23 CDT 2008
On 3/24/08, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
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> > On Monday 24 March 2008 03:47:59 am Timeout wrote:
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> > > Can't you simply start by not allowing uncontrolled connexions to the
> > > Internet (like adding an offline-modus in winecfg instead on blocking the
> > > root)?
> >
> > 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.
>
> I would personally *never* run Wine as root. About the only thing I
> run as root on my systems are the programs to install software,
> nothing else, at least in a terminal, etc.
>
> 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.
>
There's nothing special about Wine. Someone can also write a Linux
program that erases all your user files.
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James Hawkins
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