[mdlug] Wine run as root?

[Carl T. Miller]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>  One game I tried a while back was "Freedom Force", but it didn't work
> the last time I tried, at least a year ago. But recently I'd read a
> favorable report in the Wine app database, and it was on my distribution
> (Ubuntu 7.04). So I tried last night, and it failed. I tried a few
> different
> options, but no dices. (The "-nosound" option just had it hang, consuming
> CPU but not otherwise doing anything noticeable. I could ctrl-c out of it
> easily, though.)
>
>  Then, because I'd read something in a different game report, I tried
> running it as root: "sudo wine fforce.exe". And it worked! Flawlessly, so
> far as I could see, once I'd set the sound to the correct driver.

Wow.  I would think that any files that wine needs to access
would not require root access.  I'm just wondering, does the
user have permissions to access the audio device?  Are there
any other devices that the user doesn't have write access to?

c