Re: Bug#4575: World writable file
This is a game after all. I dont think we should worry about someone
editing the scores file.
I cannot see any other games that I have installed from the Debian
distribution to be using setgid. What is the custom of doing things under
debian?
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, D. Charalambous wrote:
95dmc>Package: xgalaga
95dmc>Version: 1.6c-1
95dmc>
95dmc> The file /usr/games/xgalaga/.xgalscores is world writable. The above file
95dmc> should not be world writable because any user can edit the score table.
95dmc> xgal is not sgid aware, so fixing this problem may not just be a case
95dmc> of changing permissions.
95dmc>
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