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

[Steve Brown]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Ben Klein wrote:
> > This is not a problem with Wine, this is OpenSUSE breaking the
> > environment when sudo is called. Remember, Wine is not the only X11
> > app out there. Others will need $DISPLAY working!
>
> This is something called security....

No, the whole point of using sudo is that it removes the necessity of 
anyone other than root knowing the root password.  If OpenSuSE's default 
config requires anyone that needs elevated privileges to know the root 
password, it is broken.  Using a properly configured sudo, the non-root 
users are allowed to execute a (possibly limited) number of commands with 
root privileges, but authenticating using their OWN password.

Steve Brown
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