Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 07:22:37 -0400 From: "Peter D. Pawelek" <ppawel@axess.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nethack Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980711072237.0079b5f0@mail.axess.com> In-Reply-To: <19980711134239.05898@welearn.com.au> References: <19980707182114.A713@axess.com> <19980707141648.22213@welearn.com.au> <199807071611.JAA02155@pau-amma.whistle.com> <19980707182114.A713@axess.com>
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At 01:42 PM 7/11/98 +1000, you wrote:
>If it shouldn't be necessary to be in the games group to play nethack,
>and if the port and the package really do set permissions differently,
>maybe the package needs looking at.
>
>Which is it?
Well, I checked out DejaNews to see what other people have had to say
about this:
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Subject: Re: No write permission to lock perm
From: s.c.sprong@student.utwente.nl (S.C.Sprong)
Date: 1997/09/02
Message-ID: <5uh9j6$dnc@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl>
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
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Janne Anttila <jeanttil@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>I installed Nethack 3.2.2, and when I try to run it, I get the subject's
>error message (even the file 'perm' has full write permissions).
>How do I install Nethack properly? OS is Linux RedHat 4.2.
I did a search in Dejanews, but I didn't find any authorative answer.
This is from the Nethack Makefile:
permission
GAMESPERM 04755
FILEPERM 0644
EXEPERM 0755
DIRPERM 0755
The owner of all the files and the directory is games:games
This is the standard setting when you're installing the binary distribution,
but it gives the error you described, except for root.
Try the following:
- invite your personal account to the group 'games'
- make the directory '../nethackdir' and '../nethackdir/save' group- and/or
worldwritable
- SUID nethack on execution
I'm lazy and toggled just all of the above. I would be very interested
hearing from you about the minimal changes necessary.
My OS is FreeBSD 3.0, which is comparable to Linux.
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Subject: Re: Setting up for Multiuser system..
From: jmf9936@is4.nyu.edu (Josh)
Date: 1997/08/15
Message-ID: <jmf9936-ya02408000R1508971504150001@news.nyu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack
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<Pine.BSF.3.96.970814233410.3957A-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au>,
Felius <jrdalton@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au> wrote:
> I'm wondering if people could give me tips on setting up nethack on a
> multiuser (FreeBSD) system. At the moment it's just sitting there owned
> by root, and as our sysadmin doesn't play it (I'm working on him ;)) I
> want to install it so I have wiz power, and can set stuff up..
>
> I'm thinking that the best way may be to create a user named 'nethack',
> and install it in their home directory.. What permissions would I have to
> set to allow people to play it without letting them go crazy with
> anything? (except maybe to copy their savefiles - as a means of backup
> only. I recently lost a kick-ass V because the dungeon collapsed and I
> didn't have privs to recover it before someone else played.. why doesn't
> nethack check for existing lock files or whatever they are on a multiuser
> system??)
>
> So, suggestions from anyone who's done this would be very welcome..
Call the user "wizard" or change the name (GAMEUID = xxx) in the Makefile.
If you have a group that all your users belong to, put wizard in that
group, so he has no abnormal permissions (on my Linux system, it's
"users"). Again, change the Makefile (GAMEGID = xxx) to reflect whichever
group you like.
chown -R wizard:users /usr/local/nethack-3.2.2
(if that's the directory with all the sources)
It's probably a good idea to edit include/config.h and #define SECURE so
that lock-file thing will work...
I don't #define MAX_NO_OF_USERS (or whatever it is), so I don't know how
well that works, but if you're so successful at evangelizing nethack that
it plays unacceptably slow, you might consider it.
then do a "make install" and enjoy!
Hope this helps,
Josh
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Unfortunately, I'm slumming it at the moment (ie. I'm in Windows95), so
I'm not able to check the permissions of ~ and the nethack dirs on my
system, but I'm speculating that the port has a script in it that sets
up everything properly (unlike the package).
Don't you just love DejaNews? You can find an answer to *anything* there!
Peter Pawelek (ppawel@axess.com)
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