Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (120 mails)

[Schlomo Schapiro <schlomo.schapiro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > Hmm, Ludwig, what about these permissions? Are they still needed?
>
> Well, you tell me :-) Those binaries are usually setgid games for
> writing shared highscore files in /var. I'd be happy to get rid of
> the setgid bits by default.

Could this not be also done via a suitable setup of the highscore directory with
ACLs and setgid on the directory? Make it group writeable for all users and make
sure that the default ACLs are set correctly?

Easier to modify one high score directory than lots of games and safer too. OTOH
I would think that for those 0.00001% of multi-user machines that actually
install games the admin could deal with this problem himself. The remaining
99.9999% of our installation base probably use the system as a single-user
desktop computer and can as well write high scores to the home dir or to
/var/... without bothering about how other users can write there, too.

Schlomo
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