Re: Policy for group ownership of games (Was: Re: Bug#15846: rocks-n-diamonds: errors on startup)

[Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com>]

Guy Maor wrote:

> Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com> writes:
> 
> > 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. 
>
> I doubt that it's that hard to implement.  Suggest it to the game's
> author at least.

Ian Jackson wrote:

> Joost Kooij:
> > How about adding a group "gamesadmin" to the system and making all
> > level definitions etc. owned by this group.
> 
> How does this differ from our current group `games' ?  Group `games'
> hold scorefiles, savegames, etc.  Basically, people in group `games'
> (and people who can exploit games that are setgid games) can cheat and
> get their name in the scorefiles anyway, and can mess up other
> people's games, and can get access to the accounts of people who run
> badly-written games (those which are vulnerable to corrupted data,
> which will be most).

I surrender ;-)

I agree that it is probably better to redo the game code (since I don't
have to do it anyway) than to redo the system. 

I think that it is up to the maintainer to make the next move. 

Now, should the "rocksndiamonds" group be done away with?

Cheers,


Joost