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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: TR: [Kde-games-devel] KHighscore setuid?
From:       Malte.Starostik () t-online ! de (Malte Starostik)
Date:       2001-05-02 18:38:13
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On Montag, 30. April 2001 17:22, Philippe FREMY wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On the kde-games ML, we are wondering how it is possible to install a high
> score file
> that could be shared by all users, so that they can compare their score.
>
> IMHO, no satisfying solution has yet emerged. I wonder if you guys have a
> better idea on how to handle this. Follow the thread on :
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-games-devel&m=98840952314924&w=2
Why need to run the program suid root *shrug* or suid games or something?
Wouldn't it suffice to make the chown the highscore dir to user root and 
group games and make it group-writeable? No world-writeable directory 
neccessary and any user that is a member of the games group could write the 
highscores. Of course the games would need to care that any new highscore 
files belong to that group and are writeable by it. Then a configure option 
--games-group=foobar could specify the group to use.
-Malte
 
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