-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Hawkins wrote: | On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz | <bmschwar(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote: |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> James Hawkins wrote: |> | On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz |> |> Would you consider patches to exchange the uid check for a rwx access |> check? |> | No, that check was added to keep users from running Wine as root. |> |> Then why not prevent users from running Wine as root? This does not |> prevent that. |> | | It prevents this case: | | $ sudo wine app.exe | | and we've already decided that we're not going to outright prevent | users from running wine as root. There are certain circumstances | where it's required. Then how about a patch that specifically prevents users from running wine as root over a profile that is not owned by root? I am trying to run wine as a non-root user over a profile owned by another non-root user that has been chmod'ed appropriately. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIAAYgUJT6e6HFtqQRAq+UAJ9tyF1GeAKaM10mRLfU0EOJI/nySwCfZi9Y 1zqdhyT1XzY+nfmCUkHLYqo= =6bQm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----