wine users - Jan 2010 - Re: [FAQ] [RFC] How can multiple users share an installed Wine a

fcmartins way does work.  But we don't go around recommending due to a few
issues.

Number 1 applications that only allow one per user to be run.  Yes it can get
really screwy with the setup the Ubuntu users describe.  Particular if the event
of two users running it ever happened.  Multi head setups.

Number 2 the wine system normally ends up with access to everyone usb devices
and the like.  So if infected will infect everyone.

Even the shared location has issues.  Particular with application updating and
registry records.

Really without addressing the wineserver issue we are really playing with fire
every way is a hack and shows it.

I know is hard for people to accept there is no way at this stage to do it
without downsides.   Some of them are secuirty nightmares others are update
nightmares and some are a mixture of both.

fcmartins wrote:
> 
> In a common situation of multiple users sharing the same machine, obviously
not at the same time, the solution on that howto
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917422 does not seem problematic.
> 

That "solution" requires users to run Wine as sudo.

"dimesio" <winehq.org!wineforum-user at agora.rdrop.com>
wrote:
> fcmartins wrote:
> > In a common situation of multiple users sharing the same
> > machine, obviously not at the same time, the solution on
> > that howto http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917422
> > does not seem problematic.
>
> That "solution" requires users to run Wine as sudo.
Which might be perfectly OK if sudo were configured to run
wine as a unique wine user, rather than as root.