El mié, 07-01-2015 a las 19:19 -0500, Jonathan Callen escribió:
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> The only reason there is a security issue with nethack (and other
> games like it) on Gentoo, and only on Gentoo, is that the games team
> policy requires that all games have permissions 0750, with group
> "games", and all users that should be allowed to run games be in the
> "games" group. Nethack expects that it have permissions 2755 (or
> 2711), with group "games" and that *no* users are members of that
> group, so it can securely save files that are accessible to all users
> during gameplay ("bones" files) and ensure that the user cannot
> access/change their current save file. These two expectations are
> incompatible with each other, and end up creating a security issue
> that upstream would never expect (as no users can be in the "games"
> group traditionally).
>
>
If I don't misremember Council allowed finally people to not be mandated
by that "games team" policies and, then, I guess that could finally
allow to drop that security issue no? :/
