Changing Permissions on Wine

[joelandsonja]

I am trying to figure out how to change the permissions on Wine, so that the only thing the users on this computer can do is access the programs on Wine that are already installed.

Here's what I did already:

- Accessed Home Folder
- Accessed 'Hidden' folder called '.wine'
- Right Clicked on 'dosdevices' and changed permissions to 'Access Only'
- Right Clicked on 'drive_c' and changed permissions to 'Access Only'

Now I need to know how to set these permissions in order to lock them permanently.

Keep in mind that I am a newbie and may not understand in depth lingo regarding the terminal.

Thanks for the help!
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[b2bwild]

If you do that, you can not make any change in wine prefix, and wine prefix is whole windows like structre where you save configuration files.

So if you make it read only that won't work fine.

[joelandsonja]

I really only need Wine for one program and that is DVD Decrypter.

Would it be a better idea to restrict the permissions on the c: instead?

If so, how do I do this after I set the permissions to make sure it is locked?

[b2bwild]

Wine does not provide such security, Wine prefix should be owned by the user who is going to use Wine, in addition he should have full permissions to the Wine prefix to use Wine without any problems.

You can use native Linux alternative...
dvd::rip - A full featured DVD Ripper GUI for Linux, written in Perl

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