RE: server/client programs
No, it only requires writeaccess to a directory tree. If I made the
directories world writable, anybody could run the server (cept I think I'd have
to change the umask of the program to keep the world-writable bit)
On 12-Oct-98 Shaleh wrote:
> Yes run it as games or even nobody. Does the server itself require root to
> run
> it? Remember if it is on a server, then the users often do not have access
> to
> it as they are running the client on another machine. So root controlling
> the
> data files is not of extreme importance.
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