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Re: setgid games
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:22:54PM -0500, Chuck Cranor wrote:
> [...] there is no "games" group on my system (yet).
>
> I was looking at how to fix this and I saw there was a
> GAMES_USER/GAMES_GROUP in mk/platform/Darwin.mk, but its
> all commented out.
>
> Meanwhile, games like lib/xbomb just hardwires to "games"
> like this:
>
> SCORE_USER= games
> SCORE_GROUP= games
> PKG_USERS= ${SCORE_USER}:${SCORE_GROUP}
> PKG_GROUPS= ${SCORE_GROUP}
>
>
> what's the right thing to do for golddig? Just copy the
> xbomb stuff and ignore the commented out stuff in mk/platform/Darwin.mk?
As far as I can tell, handling of setgid (and scorefiles) for games is
completely fubar. :(
In the near term probably the best thing is to figure out what to
uncomment in Darwin.mk, because that will make other games work
semi-properly too. Or at least some of them.
--
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
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