Re: gtk+-1.2.10

["J. Ali Harlow" <gtk-list avrc city ac uk>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, strout etcsupport com 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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