Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)

[Horacio J. Peña <horape compendium com ar>]

¡Hola!

> > > 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).
Ok, but the added support for levels broke it. Now i'm changing it a lot to
use gnome_config_* so it isn't going to need be suid anymore...

> -- Elliot					http://www.redhat.com/

					HoraPe