[Freeciv] Re: Setuid'ing a Civ Server / Saving games.

[Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:49:45AM +0200, strub_p@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>       Currently, when civserver has a setuid, it doesn't save the
> games with the real user ID of the user whose initiates the game. So,
> the games must be saved in a spool owned by the effective user.
> 
>       An another solution is to switch real and effective UID
> (setreuid) before opening a file and restore them after.
> 
>       Comments ? Regards,

        I'm not entirely sure I understand what you believe the problem to
be.  This is exactly what you *want* to happen in this situation, as
evidenced by Nethack, Robots, and many other games with a longer history
of shared set-UID or set-GID access than Freeciv.
-- 
Anthony J. Stuckey                              stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"And they said work hard, and die suddenly, because it's fun."
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