RE: server/client programs
Then yes I would run it games.games and make the directory games writable.
On 12-Oct-98 Darren Benham wrote:
> 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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Date: 12-Oct-98
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