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From: chris@iesd.auc.dk (Christian J. Callsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack problem
Message-ID: <CHRIS.91Mar10140750@galilei.iesd.auc.dk>
Date: 10 Mar 91 14:07:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: tom@cyclone.Berkeley.EDU's message of 10 Mar 91 00:09:11 GMT

>>>>> On 10 Mar 91 00:09:11 GMT, tom@cyclone.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Holub) said:

Tom> In article <2346@aber-cs.UUCP> aag@cs.aber.ac.uk (Angela Gilham) writes:
Tom> If this is the problem, there's no easy way to handle it.  If Nethack isn't
Tom> setuid, you could try changing it to setuid, but I don't think that'll do it.
It works with set-uid, actually. We used to run it setuid, but thanks
to our administration, we run it with setgid and some other things,
which should make it more secure.

Tom> Other than that, you could create a 'games' account with a generous 
Tom> quota that people could use to play Nethack (or any other game).  
Also a good idea - if you can convince the administration. If they are
reluctant, your could run games from 4pm->8am, and with low priority.

Tom> Or expand everybody's quotas.

Now, that would be nice. Or even remove quotas.

-Chris