2009/2/11 Vitaliy Margolen <wine-de...@kievinfo.com>: > 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....
This is something called "nothing we have to worry about or address". It's not *expected* to work this way on your default OpenSUSE configuration. Note that security always comes at the cost of convenience. 2009/2/11 Vincent Povirk <madewokherd+8...@gmail.com>: >> To abstract what you're saying here, you're suggesting to extend the >> wineprefix ownership test to include $HOME when $WINEPREFIX is not set >> and $HOME/.wine does not exist? >> >> That doesn't sounds like a bad idea to me. But I'm not so sure about >> specifically testing on UID=0 or SUDO_USER. > This specifically covers the one case that is broken for people who > maybe can't be expected to know any better: running wine for the first > time using sudo on ubuntu. I don't know why else $HOME would not be > owned by you, but I've been assuming we want Wine to function in those > cases (otherwise, we'd have added this test when we added the original > ownership test, right?). > > If a user's home directory will always be owned by the user in a > working Unix-like configuration, there's no need to test uid or > SUDO_USER. Um ... not sure what you mean here, but the problem comes when $HOME is not owned by $USER due to sudo. The default configuration of sudo on most distros is to use the calling user's $HOME. Vitaliy has demonstrated that this is not true for OpenSUSE, but as it has been discussed, OpenSUSE doesn't do anything unexpected as a result. (It's effectively the same as doing "su - -c wine" whatever.) My point is that enforcing the test only on UID is not a particularly neat way to do it, because you'd get the same permissions problems if "sudo -u otheruser" is used. Also, that the default wineprefix is in $HOME, which does not and should not involve a lookup in /etc/passwd for the home directory of the user indicated in $USER (or $SUDO_USER), since this has already been done when setting up the environment. So Wine really doesn't need to do special things with $SUDO_USER.