On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Mckenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
It is now (before, just said sudo rm -rf ~/.wine). -- -Austin
