Save games

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Fri Apr 14 23:36:17 UTC 2006


>>>>> "MT" == Michael Thomas <wart at kobold.org> writes:

MT> What strategies could be used to prevent this sort of cheating?
MT> Should save files be moved into a shared directory, owned by
MT> root.games, so that user's can't edit them?

In the old days that's how things worked, but these days I don't think
it's a really good idea.  The general case is one user per machine.

If somehow obtaining "group games" access was considered to be
something other than a security exploit then I wouldn't care.  These
days I wonder if its even worth doing the setgid games thing for high
scores.

 - J<




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