Cannot run wine under sudo after update

mikef

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Nov 19, 2007, 4:19:03 PM11/19/07

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I am using ubuntu 7.10. I cannot run wine under sudo after updating
wine to 0.9.49 by following the instruction on the wine web site. I
get the error message ".wine is not owned by you". It runs fine when
not under sudo. It ran fine both way prior to updating.

Help!

JosephKK

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Nov 30, 2007, 8:22:59 PM11/30/07

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mikef mik...@verizon.net posted to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:

I have a suggestion. Create a new group called say mywine. Make both
yourself and root (and any user named sudo) as members of the group.
Set the group permissions to rwx for the .wine directory tree.
Then see if it works.

jayjwa

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Dec 4, 2007, 2:03:21 AM12/4/07

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JosephKK <joseph_...@sbcglobal.net> writes:

I just upgraded to 0.9.50 and now...

wine /opt/wine/Program\ Files/PPView/viewer/ppview32.exe some.ppt
wine: /opt/wine is not owned by you
Exit 1

But that's the idea: I do not want every single Windows app writing
all over my fake Windows filesystem, rooted at /opt/wine. The files,
DLL's, inifiles, config files are root-owed and should not be
writable by ordinary users running Wine.

I *really* don't want to download, hack the source, and build the
entire Wine suite of tools to remove this annoying "feature". If any
of the developers or Wine packagers read this group, can we please
revert back to the old behaviour?

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JosephKK

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Dec 9, 2007, 4:34:30 PM12/9/07

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jayjwa jay...@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid posted to
comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:

The last i heard (about 0.39) it was supposed to be installed on a per
user basis, needing serious custom configuration for any other
install.

ljkramer

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Dec 10, 2007, 2:50:55 PM12/10/07

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On Dec 4, 2:03 am, jayjwa <jay...@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:
> JosephKK <joseph_barr...@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> > mikef mike...@verizon.net posted to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine:

I use wine under opensuse 10.3. I installed wine and wine-doors from
the rpm set as root, then created directories called .wine
and .winedoors on a drive where I have lots of room. I created a
directory called wine-doors under .wine. In each user's home folder,
I created symlinks to .wine-doors, and in each user's .wine directory
I created symlinks to .wine/wine-doors. I also created symlinks in /
usr/bin to all the wine executables (in opensuse, it's in every user's
path). I moved all the wine-doors stuff to the new .wine/wine-doors
directory, and all the .wine-doors stuff to the new .wine-doors (I had
to delete root's directories before replacing them with symlinks). I
gave all users rwx permissions for the new directories, and rx
permission for the wine executables. I used the "users" group for
this; no new group was necessary. Now all user's can run wine and
install WinDoze programs from CD's.

jayjwa

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Dec 17, 2007, 12:42:43 AM12/17/07

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I'm not sure how I'll solve this, but thanks for the suggestions.