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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: TR: [Kde-games-devel] KHighscore setuid?
From:       Andreas Beckermann <b_mann () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-05-07 14:00:55
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On Monday 07 May 2001 01:27, George Staikos wrote:
> > >     That is insecure because it requires a globally writable file. 
> > > What
> >
> > group writable.
>
>   If everyone is in the group, then it's world writable.  Come on, don't
> try and play with the words here.
Everyone who needs to write to the highscore table is not everyone on a 
system. User "nobody" can write to world-writeable files, too and is 
certainly not member of a group "games"

[...]
> why not do it right?  Especially when we have an opportunity to implement
> something that, to my knowledge, has never been done [properly].
Please note that the word *properly* is the most important word of the entire 
sentence.

CU
Andi
 
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