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List:       kde-games-devel
Subject:    RE: [Kde-games-devel] KHighscore
From:       Philippe FREMY <P.FREMY () OBERTHURCS ! com>
Date:       2001-04-30 9:29:00
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> Another approach would be to have the highscore file writable 
> for root only, 
> and have a small suid program that does the writing to that 
> file. It can 
Exactly like cron and crontab in fact. That sounds good.

> 
> % sethighscore /opt/kde/share/highscores/ksame.scores 4382 
> "Peter Smith"
> 
> The program would check if this score is even worth being 
> included within the 
> highscore list, and kicks out someone else (the former number 
> 10 of the list).
> 
> Of course one should think of a way to authenticate the caller of the 
> program, so that faking would not be that easy! :-)
> 

Unfortunately, it is always easy to fake when everything is open-source. We
should ask kde-devel, since developers have been into lot of thinking for
kde-su and KRpmManager, they probably have some ideas.

	regards,

	Philippe Fremy
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