On 03/19/2012 01:40 PM, prateek papriwal wrote: > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f566a12c806a1eacaeefb7cb6419a513a773c571 as > mentioned wine does not provide sandboxing at all but there can be some > wine users would like to prevent Windows apps from accessing unix system > so there is need for a simple sandboxing interface. Like the FAQ says use SELinux or AppArmor for that. There is no way that Wine can prevent that as the Windows apps can just call into a Linux lib or even perform a direct system call. Or just remove the Z: drive in winecfg as a poor men "sandboxing".
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Austin English <austinengl...@gmail.com > <mailto:austinengl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:19, prateek papriwal > <papriwalprat...@gmail.com <mailto:papriwalprat...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Networking + wine (like as running uTorrent in ubuntu) can be very > > dangerous. I feel there should be some sandboxing(as in Windows) > to prevent > > frequent attacks. I would be very interested in implementing > sandboxing for > > running Wine applications. > > What sandboxing are you referring to in Windows? > > Regarding sandboxing Wine itself, see the FAQ entry: > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f566a12c806a1eacaeefb7cb6419a513a773c571 > bye michael