On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd like to point out that in the case of nethack, this is already
> handled by having nethack owned by games:bin. The save files end up
> being owned by games and grouped by the player that invoked nethack.
>
> In a situation where you have unique groups for each user, this makes it
> impossible for any other user to read/write someone elses player files.
>
> So really, in the case of gnomehack, I fail to see why you need setgid
> or setuid.
Pardon me if I'm being stupid, but how can the save files end up being owned by
games if something, somewhere isn't setuid games (or root, I suppose)?
I don't know which distribution you are referring to, but I'm not aware of any
versions of NetHack (including GnomeHack) which currently have a setguid helper.
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