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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: TR: [Kde-games-devel] KHighscore setuid?
From:       Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () zvw ! de>
Date:       2001-05-06 13:52:54
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On Wednesday 02 May 2001 20:38, Malte Starostik wrote:

> 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.

But then every user in the games group could modify his highscores manually, 
and he could fill the shared directory with garbage to make the disk full or 
just use it to work around a disk quota for his home dir.
 
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