RE: server/client programs

[Darren Benham <gecko@benham.net>]

On 12-Oct-98 Shaleh wrote:
> If at all possible it should avoid running as root. You can provide an init.d
> script and allow people to install it themselves.  The same script could be
> used to manually start the server as well.  So version -1 could place the
> script in say /usr/games and version -2 could offer to place it in
> /etc/init.d
> by running update-rc.d.
> 

Avoid running as root?  So, SUID permissions??  SUID permissions but don't use
root use.... games.games ??

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