http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11112
--- Comment #18 from Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org 2008-01-11 04:40:50 --- (In reply to comment #16)
I think that should be a registry switch (somewhere in Software\Wine registry branch) and a command-line option to disable this check. This will solve all problems. For example:
wine --disable-owner-check notepad
Or (short switch):
wine -d notepad
Having ability to disable unnecessary checks is the standard in the Linux World. Especially this is true for checks that are exist only as protection from newbie users (or users who don't understand what he/she is doing). Expert users should be able to do what they want to do.
The check can be disabled by creating a temporary wineprefix dir that contains symlinks to the real files. For an expert user that's surely not harder than specifying a command line option.