Aurimas FiĊĦeras <[email protected]> wrote: >Sent: Feb 9, 2009 7:45 AM >To: James Mckenzie <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend) > >James Mckenzie wrote: >> Alexandre Julliard <[email protected]> wrote: >>[...] >> New wine installation: >> >> su (no dash so root's environment is not picked up) >> wine notepad >> install various programs and use them. >> exit >> >> User logs in a second time after learning how to properly use Wine. >> Attempt to do anything with Wine in user space. Cannot do due to >> permissions problems. >> >> The solution: >> >> sudo rm -rf .wine >No, the solution is >sudo chown -R user:user .wine
Correct. However, this is not being given as the solution. Also, if the user is on an alternate wine prefix this would change to: sudo chown -R <username>:users $WINEPREFIX Is this in the FAQ somewhere? James McKenzie
