Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:01:03 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> said:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:15:50PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Only if the game still works -- some games keep not just score
>> files, but saved games in the common area, and would not work as
>> expected if they could not write to that area.
> nethack is the only game which comes to mind which does this, and I
> think it should probably be changed to keep the saved game in the
> user's home directory. This was clearly done in order to try to
> prevent cheating, but again, these days the player has root anyway.
Well, if you are talking about packages in main, yes. But
there are other games that follow policy that are also affected.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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