Marcus Meissner wrote:

as we've heard from our Austrian colleague, this is not improving sec (which was a freshening shock for me). 
    

Since the symlink is in a directory controlled by the user, the user
should be able to remove it. If not, something is broken.

ls -la ~/.wine
ls -la ~/.wine/dosdevices

Ciao, Marcus
Is there a Linux hardening guide that we can recommend that people use to make their systems safe?

Jeff