[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"
Mark Knecht
markknecht at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 12:46:16 CDT 2008
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:32 AM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/24/08, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
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> > > On Monday 24 March 2008 03:47:59 am Timeout wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can't you simply start by not allowing uncontrolled connexions to the
> > > > Internet (like adding an offline-modus in winecfg instead on blocking the
> > > > root)?
> > >
> > > What reason would one EVER need to run end-user software as root in the first
> > > place? Wine or not, that's just terrible practice.
> > >
> >
> > In Linux I agree. In Windows there is lots of software that requires
> > folks to install and/or run as administrator. I sometimes suspect that
> > some Wine users, nebies mostly, get confused about the difference
> > between the two.
> >
> > I would personally *never* run Wine as root. About the only thing I
> > run as root on my systems are the programs to install software,
> > nothing else, at least in a terminal, etc.
> >
> > As much as I like Wine I am even concerned about running it in my
> > regular user account as it seems to me someone could write a Windows
> > program that then erases all my Linux user files, etc.
> >
>
> There's nothing special about Wine. Someone can also write a Linux
> program that erases all your user files.
>
Completely true, but I get my programs from Gentoo's portage and do
not run testing versions so unless someone is pretty tricky about
hiding their intentions or the validation process runs afoul I figure
I'm relatively safe.
On the other hand I fully expect that one day someone with a chip on
the shoulder in the Windows world will start writing programs
specifically aimed at hurting the Open Source world. It will be a sad
day if something like that happens. Maybe it already has an I just
haven't heard...
Best to be safe and do regular backups.
Thanks,
Mark
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