On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Marcus Meissner marcus@jet.franken.de wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:41:00PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
I hope you are not seriously suggesting that we do this...
Seriously.
I'm not at all convinced that we need even a warning, there doesn't seem to be much concrete evidence that running as root is actually harmful,
Many, many newbies are running wine as root without really needing to. They are much more likely to screw up their systems this way. Are you saying we should stop advising against this?
QUestion is ... Why do they do this?
Ciao, Marcus
On Ubuntu, you cannot even login as root, they'd have to run "sudo wine". On many other distros, if you login as root, you'll get a dialog warning you about it, and the desktop background will be bright red. Are people going out of their way to run Wine as root?