On Sunday 20 May 2007 11:03:18 pm Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > For no good reason other than curiosity, I installed wine today and then > > loaded an old Windows program from the 98SE era. Kinda neat. Installing > > wine required that I become root, of course, but I was able to install > > the Windows program as a user. Given the emphasis on security in Linux -- > > and particularly in Fedora -- I was amazed. FWIW, the program in question > > does not access the network, and I have SELinux disabled. Still... > > > > -- cmg > > Two things to keep in mind: > 1. By default, the Windows program was installed in the .wine tree > in your home directory. > > 2. When running, the Windows program only has as as much access as > the user that launched it. Or even less access, depending on how you > have Wine configured. > > In other words, you can mess up your own files, but not the system. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Mikkel: Thanks for the reply. It was a bit of a shock to be able to install a program on a Linux system without having root privilege. I'll recover. -- cmg
