Anton Berezin <[email protected]> writes:

> A lot of files are installed with world-writable permissions.  In many cases
> this is completely unwarranted (like, .gif files).  In some cases there is
> a plausible reason for this: scid tries to write something into
> bases/matein* files when one goes through tactical exercises.  This is,
> however, an extremely bad style for (potentially multi-user) Unix systems.
> Again, some sort of a workaround seems warranted - like copying those files
> to ~/.scid directory upon first start or something.
>

Please see this script for the slackware package, which corrects the
permissions and tries a workaround (writeble only for users in ``games''
group in /var/games/scid linked to /usr/share/scid). I added a section
to the debian manpage, suggesting to put these files in ~/.scid

<http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/12.2/games/scid.tar.gz>

Marco

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