Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)

[Elliot Lee <sopwith cuc edu>]

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, [iso-8859-1] Horacio J. Peña wrote:

> ¡Hola!
> 
> > > 2. Have a wrapper (suid games) that writes the saved games. But, more SUID 
> > > things?
> > Have you even looked at the details of the gnome-score stuff? It already
> > uses an sgid wrapper that (should) work quite well. Perhaps the problems
> > result from you doing 'make install' as non-root?
> Yes. But score-log-helper must be suid games, not only sgid (if it's only sgid
> the last user that did a mark can edit the top ten file.) 

It is sgid games, but making it suid games is not needed. All you need to
do is have each game create their score files, owned by root, when they're
installed. 

The owner of the score file does *not* get changed when a game writes to
it (this goes for any file, not just score files).

Again, please read source code before commenting. There's a note about
this specifically in there.
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