[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#424) civserver --version as root

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:36:14AM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> 
> [gkoopman@xxxxxxxxx - Fri Jun 30 12:46:53 2000]:
> 
> > It's OK that the civserver and civclient executables refuse to work
> > for root, but shouldn't it be possible to do run them with options
> > like --help and --version?
> 
> This is a good point.  Allowing it just require moving a few lines
> (patch attached) so that we read in the command-line arguments (and
> handle --help and --version) before calling dont_run_as_root.
> 
> Note that this causes audio_init to be run for civclient - should this
> function also be moved down?

IMHO yes.

> 
> Are there any objections to this?  Is it sufficiently secure?  Or has
> such a discussion taken place before?
> 
> jason
> 

Christian

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