Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#22167 assigned defect
nethack runs as root — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | adam.gc.watkins@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.8.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | nethack |
Description
Nethack runs as root, via setuid on '/opt/local/share/nethackdir/nethack'. It might sensible to setgid as 'games' or similar and set permissions appropriately elsewhere, but to run nethack as root by default is insane from a security perspective.
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