Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:33:44 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nethack permissions Message-ID: <19980720023344.A2875@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <19980720080447.24765@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 08:04:47AM %2B1000 References: <19980720080447.24765@welearn.com.au>
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On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 08:04:47AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> The nethack-3.2.2 package package sets user and group to games.games
> and permissions 664 for every file in /usr/local/lib/nethackdir/
> This has been deliberately set both in PLIST and in patch-aa (I think)
>
> Running nethack fails with:
> Warning: cannot write scoreboard file /usr/local/lib/nethackdir/record
> No write permission to lock perm!
>
> What's the trick here? Are well behaved users supposed to be rewarded
> by adding them to the games group or something?
/usr/local/bin/nethack is a wrapper shell script that calls the
real nethack binary in ${PREFIX}/lib/nethack, that runs SGID games:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1339278 19 Jul 14:15 nethack
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