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

[James Mckenzie]

Aurimas Fišeras <aurimas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sent: Feb 9, 2009 7:45 AM
> To: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)earthlink.net>
> Cc: wine-devel(a)winehq.org
> Subject: Re: ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)
>
> James Mckenzie wrote:
> > Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > 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
> > No, the solution is
> > sudo chown -R user:user .wine

Correct.  However, this is not being given as the solution.  

Also, if the user is on an alternate wine prefix this would change to:

sudo chown -R <username>:users $WINEPREFIX

Is this in the FAQ somewhere?  

James McKenzie