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El mié, 07-01-2015 a las 19:19 -0500, Jonathan Callen escribió: |
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> The only reason there is a security issue with nethack (and other |
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> games like it) on Gentoo, and only on Gentoo, is that the games team |
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> policy requires that all games have permissions 0750, with group |
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> "games", and all users that should be allowed to run games be in the |
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> "games" group. Nethack expects that it have permissions 2755 (or |
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> 2711), with group "games" and that *no* users are members of that |
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> group, so it can securely save files that are accessible to all users |
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> during gameplay ("bones" files) and ensure that the user cannot |
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> access/change their current save file. These two expectations are |
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> incompatible with each other, and end up creating a security issue |
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> that upstream would never expect (as no users can be in the "games" |
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> group traditionally). |
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If I don't misremember Council allowed finally people to not be mandated |
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by that "games team" policies and, then, I guess that could finally |
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allow to drop that security issue no? :/ |
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