Re: wine and security

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Hi,

I believe that "su" changes to root but using the environment (path etc) of 
the current user, whereas "su -" changes to root using root's environment.

Graham.

At 08:31 24/11/2001, you wrote:
>Hello everybody
>as you know, wine is a windows emulator.
>can viruses affect Linux PCs having wine installed over them ?
>
>other question : what's the difference between su and su -
>I noticed that on some PCs, su doesn't allow the user to execute some
>commands (service for example)
>
>best regards
>
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