Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:29:36 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Peter Pentchev" <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: setuid on nethack? Message-ID: <016001c17338$37d65240$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <014201c17336$40653f90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011122112415.B855@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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After seeing that the owner and group were games, I set the permissions back to 2511, which I assume is safe. Do I need to take special precautions if I play this game from root? Would 6511 be a better choice in that case? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Pentchev" <roam@ringlet.net> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:24 Subject: Re: setuid on nethack? > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:15:37AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > This morning I see an e-mail from the system telling me that setuid is set on > > nethack, the adventure-style game that I installed recently. Why would this > > game require this bit? I reset it with chmod 0544, which seems like plenty to > > me. > > AFAIK, many games on Unix systems are setuid or setgid 'games', so that > any user on the system can read and write the high scores and saved games. > If you only intend to play Nethack from one particular system account, > you should have no problem without the setuid bit, but make sure to > set the appropriate owner/group/permissions on the high scores and > saved games files/dirs. > > G'luck, > Peter > > -- > If this sentence didn't exist, somebody would have invented it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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