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Ticket #17461 (new defect)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

jnethack: don't make user/group games

Reported by: ryandesign@… Owned by: takanori@…
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:1 Changed 4 years ago by anonymous

  • Milestone Port Bugs deleted

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

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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