[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#424) civserver --version as root
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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?
>
> Are there any objections to this? Is it sufficiently secure? Or has
> such a discussion taken place before?
I am in favour of doing this, and moving the audio init down.
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- [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#424) civserver --version as root, Jason Short via RT, 2002/11/12
- [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#424) civserver --version as root, Jason Short via RT, 2002/11/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#424) civserver --version as root, Mike Kaufman via RT, 2002/11/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#424) civserver --version as root, Raimar Falke, 2002/11/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#424) civserver --version as root, Raimar Falke via RT, 2002/11/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] renaming audio_init, Jason Dorje Short, 2002/11/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: renaming audio_init, Mike Kaufman, 2002/11/18
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: renaming audio_init, Reinier Post, 2002/11/19
- [Freeciv-Dev] Re: renaming audio_init, Raimar Falke, 2002/11/19
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