Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs
Subject: Re: Amazing Maze is amazing
Summary: Some notes on how games work.
Message-ID: <403@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 01:15:56 GMT
References: <117@ureka.UUCP>
Organization: one bitchin' 3b1 in Tx.Houston.the-Montrose
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In article <117@ureka.UUCP>, charlie@ureka.UUCP (charlie crassi) writes:
> My questions are:
> 1) How did this get started up on w1 ? It was running with a uid of 0.

Um, If Amazing Maze is like the other games, it gets run as root.  If the
parent process dies, it'll stay active in whatever window is open.  How
it got a uid of 0 is beyond me.

> 2) Why did it disable both terminals ?

It's God's fault.

> 3) I had installed this as install. All of the permissions looked normal. It
>    has never happened before to my knowledge. Has any one ever had the same
>    or similar experience ? Other games ran OK.


THIS GOES FOR EVERYBODY!!!

Check your Toybox file right now, and all the related files.  Many of them
are run as root.  If a game has an "escape to shell" option, the shell
will be a *ROOT* shell.  (Luckily, I, and not a user, found this out. :-)


I dunno how much this helps, really, but I thought it was interesting. :-)
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