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All goated methods (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'll trust you on the Windows side of things, but you ought to explain how Wine is running things with admin privileges

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    You are misunderstanding him. Wine has not implemented any UAC dialogue like windows; when the application requests it, it just gets "elevated" as if the user had pressed that UAC button under windows; but Wine does this automatically, as there is no need for something like that.

    As stated in comment 50, applications requiring unelevated privileges can be run directly, without the need for "runas" or any similar manual intervention.

    https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613#c50

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Wine acts as if it has admin on the Windows side, but that's unrelated to admin on the Linux host, very likely wine is just running with user privileges there.

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