Re: ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)

[Steve Brown]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> wrote:
> > Please explain how running as root will screw their Wine directory. If
> > that's really true, surely it should be fixed instead of simply throwing
> > out a warning and proceeding.
>
> New wine installation:
>
> su (no dash so root's environment is not picked up)
> wine notepad
> install various programs and use them.
> exit
>
> User logs in a second time after learning how to properly use Wine.
> Attempt to do anything with Wine in user space.  Cannot do due to permissions problems.
>
> The solution:
>
> sudo rm -rf .wine

Wouldn't a better solution be `sudo chown -r me:me .wine`  ?

Steve Brown
sbrown7(a)umbc.edu