Policy for group ownership of games (Was: Re: Bug#15846: rocks-n-diamonds: errors on startup)
On 13 Dec 1997, Ole [iso-8859-1] Jørgen Tetlie wrote:
> Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com> writes:
>
> > On 11 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > > Package: rocks-n-diamonds
> > > Version: 0.9b-1
> > >
> > > rocksndiamonds: cannot create names file
> > > '/usr/lib/games/rocksndiamonds/ROCKS.names'!
> > > rocksndiamonds: cannot create names file
> > > '/var/lib/games/rocksndiamonds/tutorial/ROCKS.names'!
> > >
> > > This looks like a bug to me.
> >
> > No, read the README. It says that you have to be in the rocksndiamonds
> > group to write to these files.
> >
> > Yes, it should be the games group, not rocksndiamonds. I've already filed
> > a bug about that.
>
> It should be, but there is a problem. If I use the group games, everyone
> can (over)write levels. That's not particularly nice, or what?
>
> Highscores should ideally be writeable by everyone, but both levels
> and highscores must have the same policy. Suggestions?
How about adding a group "gamesadmin" to the system and making all level
definitions etc. owned by this group.
Cheers,
Joost
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