Re: Policy for group ownership of games (Was: Re: Bug#15846: rocks-n-diamonds: errors on startup)
On 17 Dec 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com> writes:
>
> > How about adding a group "gamesadmin" to the system and making all level
> > definitions etc. owned by this group.
>
> Sounds like overkill to me.
>
> I think you should go with the simple solution - the builtin levels
> are not writable, but you can specify levels from the command line.
That doesn't seem "simple" to me. It requires that a lot of games be
patched to allow for a command-line switch to override the location of
data files.
> Users can then just put levels in their home dirs, and they can let
> other people play them if they want.
I agree that this would be a more elegant solution, but it would also
require a lot of effort from the maintainers of games with an option to
edit levels.
A "gamesadmin" group would be a much simpler solution. I don't think it is
overkill to add this group. It is just one group and it would serve all
games that need to differentiate between the average mortal game-playing
user and someone with more rights and powers.
The alternative (besides rewriting a lot of games) is to run games as
root. I don't want that and I don't think you are trying to advocate it
either.
Cheers,
Joost
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