On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
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James Hawkins wrote: | On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz | bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu wrote: |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> James Hawkins wrote: |> | On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz |> |> Would you consider patches to exchange the uid check for a rwx access |> check? |> | No, that check was added to keep users from running Wine as root. |> |> Then why not prevent users from running Wine as root? This does not |> prevent that. |> | | It prevents this case: | | $ sudo wine app.exe | | and we've already decided that we're not going to outright prevent | users from running wine as root. There are certain circumstances | where it's required.
Then how about a patch that specifically prevents users from running wine as root over a profile that is not owned by root? I am trying to run wine as a non-root user over a profile owned by another non-root user that has been chmod'ed appropriately.
Running as root was just a specific example. The second case isn't allowed either.