Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)
- From: ketil ii uib no
- To: "Horacio J. Peņa" <horape compendium com ar>
- Cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)
- Date: 26 Jan 1998 14:04:05 +0100
Horacio J. Peņa <horape@compendium.com.ar> writes:
> a pretty problem. It's the same problem all saved games have. The users
> can edit them. So anyone can have 100,000 points (5 times the best score
> 2. Have a wrapper (suid games) that writes the saved games. But, more SUID
> things?
2.5 make it suid bin or games, not suid root, which is somewhat safer.
Another problem is that some systems disallow suid programs, in
particular over NFS.
> 3. Avoid saved games. But we would be lossing funcionality.
> 4. Educate users. (OK, we have 3 options :-)
5. encrypt the score file somehow (okay, so the user can hack the
source and work it out)
~kzm
--
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