Ticket #17461 (new defect)
jnethack: don't make user/group games
| Reported by: | ryandesign@… | Owned by: | takanori@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.7.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | kyut@… | |
| Port: | jnethack |
Description
jnethack makes a user and group "games". Could it be changed to not do that, please, and to just install as whatever user the process is running as, like other ports do? Thanks.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign@…
Hm, the readme explains:
The official Linux binary is set up to run setgid games, which allows multiple users on your system to play the game and prevents cheating by unprivileged users. The usual default for NetHack is setuid games, but this causes problems with accessing .nethackrc on distributions with restrictive default security on home directories and users who don't know the tradeoffs of various permission settings.
So now I'm not sure if the port should be changed.
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Milestone Port Bugs deleted