Bug#859318: pyracerz: Games crashes with Permission denied when writing highscores

Markus Koschany apo at debian.org
Sun Apr 2 17:31:29 UTC 2017


Am 02.04.2017 um 18:29 schrieb James Cowgill:
[...]
> The point is that no user should ever need to be a member of the games
> group and I expect 99% of all users who want to run pyracerz are not.

I don't see any problem here. This is certainly a better solution than
making an arch:all game arch:any and my answer definitely did resolve
the issue at hand.

> By your argument, why does pyracerz's postinst contain code to make
> pyracerz setgid?

Probably because someone copied this code from another game that writes
high score files to /var/games.

Regards,

Markus

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