On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- James Hawkins
