On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:36:58PM +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently busy with the movement of gnome from /opt/gnome to /usr. One of the last packages I need to do is gnome-games, which is everything but fun.
Current situation: - gnome-games package, many games, different ones for every major release - several score files per game, created by postinstall/postupgrade with root:user permissions, writable by user, created as 660 files. - score files can change in any release
Now a games group would come in handy: - forget about the post_install and score files - install game binaries setgid games - users can't cheat anymore because they can only write score files by executing the game
I would propose to add a games group and a directory called /var/games or /var/lib/games with root:games ownership and 775 rights.
It's strange that everyone seems ok with this. I remember all the other times that it was suggested it was shouted down (I think it was on the tur-users list). I'm interested to hear the people who don't think this is a good idea. Jason